Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Digital Companion

Using the digital companion

The digital companion is useful for those who have read Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices and those who haven’t. There are two ways of navigating material in the digital companion. Use the table of contents below to jump to content that corresponds to each chapter in the volume, including brief descriptions of the chapters and materials for download. The bottom of this page also includes a downloads section, where you can directly download material from the digital companion.

Chapter Descriptions and Digital Content

How To Be an Anti-Racist Researcher: An Example of Institutional Change

Alicia J. Cooper Ellis, Sharrell Hassell-Goodman, Robert L. Graham, Marvin G. Powell, and Meagan Call-Cummings

Abstract: This chapter explores how participation in a workshop series helped researchers move beyond normative research practices to conduct equitable research in their respective disciplines. The authors highlight the impact an anti-racist research approach can have on community outcomes and social change.

• Workshop: How to Be an Anti-Racist Researcher
  Sharrell Hassell-Goodman

• Presentation: What Is Decolonizing Research?
  Robert L. Graham

Nurses of Color Voices: Storytelling and Listening in Anti-Racist Educational Practice

Lucinda Canty, Sharon Latimer-Mosley, Raeann LeBlanc, Frankie Manning, and Gayle Robinson

Abstract: This chapter demonstrates how a community of nurses reckoned with racism in their field by amplifying the experiences of nurses of color – an effort that led to an expansion of the traditional nursing curriculum. The authors help readers envision how they might center the lived experiences of BIPOC practitioners in their respective fields or disciplines.

• Guiding Document: Principles of Reckoning, Nurses of Color Voices
  Lucinda Canty, Sharon Latimer-Mosley, Raeann LeBlanc, Frankie Manning, and Gayle Robinson

• Discussion Questions: Nurses of Color Voices
  Lucinda Canty, Sharon Latimer-Mosley, Raeann LeBlanc, Frankie Manning, and Gayle Robinson

Working Against Racism Through Cross-Institutional Communities of Practice

Aaliyah Baker, Marisol Morales, Sharyn Lowenstein, and John Reiff

Abstract: This chapter describes a national anti-racism community of practice (COP) that fosters and supports critical conversations about race and racism in higher education community engagement work. The authors detail spaces where COP participants explore race and racism, build cross-racial coalitions, and heal from and undo systemic racism inside and outside the academy

• Agendas: Anti-Racist Community of Practice
  Aaliyah Baker, Marisol Morales, Sharyn Lowenstein, and John Reiff

• Resource List: Anti-Racist Community of Practice
  Aaliyah Baker, Marisol Morales, Sharyn Lowenstein, and John Reiff

• Ground Rules: Anti-Racist Community of Practice
  Aaliyah Baker, Marisol Morales, Sharyn Lowenstein, and John Reiff

• Presentation: Organizing Against Racism in Higher Education
  John Reiff

Campus Coalitions Toward Indigenous Well-Being: Anti-Racist Community-Engaged Reflections on Institutional Change

Zia NoiseCat, Meredith McCoy, Paul Dressen, and Sinda Nichols

Abstract: This chapter documents institutional change that reclaims and legitimizes the silenced and invisibilized histories of local Indigenous communities and their change efforts. The authors reflect on collaborative efforts between campus and community partners to develop anti-racist practices that prioritize Indigenous ways of knowing and work towards systemic change.

• Digital Resources: Campus Coalitions Toward Indigenous Well-Being
  Zia NoiseCat, Meredith McCoy, Paul Dressen, and Sinda Nichols

• Syllabus: Indigenous Histories at Carlton
  Meredith McCoy

Engage San Francisco Literacy: Anti-Racist Approaches to Place-Based Work

Dresden June Frazier, Karin Cotterman, and Carla Berenice Trujillo

Abstract: This chapter describes a tutoring program that brings together community stakeholders to create a pro-Black space affirming Black children and their families. The authors demonstrate how community-university partnerships incorporating anti-racist practices allowed for Black lived experience to be uplifted while participants developed a deeper capacity for learning.

• Curriculum: Engage San Francisco Literacy Program Cultural Humility Curriculum
  Dresden June Frazier, Karin Cotterman, and Carla Berenice Trujillo

Sowing Seeds of Justice: The Roxbury Community College Garden

Nasreen Latif and Fahmil Shah

Abstract: This chapter details how a garden built community capacity for anti-racist approaches to food injustice and social inequity. The authors describe how the garden became a hub for academic institutions and community-based organizations to work collaboratively in support of asset-based community development

• Brochure: Roxbury Community College Garden
  Nasreen Latif and Fahmil Shah

Qì Gōng and (Re) Centering the Body in Community Engagement as an Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Kathleen S. Yep

Abstract: This chapter uses the embodied epistemology of qì gōng to reclaim community knowing and knowledge production through a body-centered anti-racist learning process. The author describes how reconnecting the body to learning opens new pathways for participation, liberatory learning, and transformative change.

• Presentation: Qì Gōng
  Kathleen S. Yep

Washington County Remembrance Memorial Marker: Practicing Anti-Racist Community Engagement

Valandra, RoAnne Elliott, and LaShawnda Fields

Abstract: This chapter presents a community’s efforts to come together across racial lines to remember and memorialize lives lost to racist violence. The authors offer a community-centered approach that prioritizes experience-based epistemologies and suggests new ways to engage in knowledge production.

• Project Proposal: Washington County Remembrance Memorial Marker
  Valandra, RoAnne Elliott, and LaShawnda Fields

• Correspondence with Stakeholders: Washington County Remembrance Memorial Marker
  Valandra, RoAnne Elliott, and LaShawnda Fields

• Deliverables Progress Chart: Washington County Remembrance Memorial Marker
  Valandra, RoAnne Elliott, and LaShawnda Fields

• Project Press Release: Washington County Remembrance Memorial Marker
  Valandra, RoAnne Elliott, and LaShawnda Fields

• Program: Dedication and Award Ceremony for Washington County Remembrance Memorial Marker
  Valandra, RoAnne Elliott, and LaShawnda Fields

Intergenerational Strategies for Dealing with Racism: Perspectives of African American Women Elders

Priscilla Gibson and Jessica Coleman

Abstract: This chapter discusses an anti-racist community-engaged research practice that grew from deeply personal encounters with racism. The authors share how learning from the lived experiences of African American women elders helped them develop ways to dismantle the impact of systemic racism for youth in their community.

• Community-Engaged Activities: Intergenerational Strategies for Dealing with Racism
  Priscilla A. Gibson and Jessica Coleman

Sticky Family and the Transformative Power of Making Together

Katie L. Price and Yaroub Al-Obaidi

Abstract: This chapter asks us to imagine what the world would look like if we had to stick together despite differences in nationality, religion, and culture. The authors show how anti-racist community engagement decenters whiteness, integrates marginalized perspectives, and emphasizes intersectional ways of knowing.

• Comic Book: Sticky Family
  josh graupera

Centering Counterstories in Anti-Racist Podcasting Pedagogies

Brooke Covington and Cameron Bertrand

Abstract: This chapter shows how podcasting provides a unique anti-racist pedagogical tool for prioritizing alternative ways of knowing through nontraditional methodologies like storytelling. The authors demonstrate how community partners and students can co-create knowledge while highlighting the cultural wealth that resides within their community.

• Podcast Assignment: Centering Counterstories
  Brooke Covington and Cameron Bertrand

• Podcasting Resources: Centering Counterstories
  Brooke Covington and Cameron Bertrand

• 
Interview Consent Form: Centering Counterstories
  Brooke Covington and Cameron Bertrand

• Engagement Journal Prompt: Centering Counterstories
  Brooke Covington and Cameron Bertrand

• Peer Review Form: Centering Counterstories
  Brooke Covington and Cameron Bertrand

• Sample Group Contract: Centering Counterstories
  Brooke Covington and Cameron Bertrand

• Self and Group Evaluations: Centering Counterstories
  Brooke Covington and Cameron Bertrand

Designing Anti-Racist Community Education in Ethnic Studies

Loan Thi Dao, Sarah Beth Dempsey, and Teresa Giacoman

Abstract: This chapter highlights how communicating and collaborating with community partners in course design yields benefits for students and partners alike. The authors demonstrate how institutional support, a history of engagement, and flexibility in design can enable collaboration where BIPOC students persist and succeed through challenges.

• Student Biweekly Survey: Designing Anti-Racist Community Education in Ethnic Studies
  Loan Thi Dao, Sarah Beth Dempsey, and Teresa Giacoman

• Community Partner Midterm Survey: Designing Anti-Racist Community Education in Ethnic Studies
  Loan Thi Dao, Sarah Beth Dempsey, and Teresa Giacoman

• Community Partner Final Survey: Designing Anti-Racist Community Education in Ethnic Studies
  Loan Thi Dao, Sarah Beth Dempsey, and Teresa Giacoman

Ungrading Engagement: Assessment Practices for an Anti-Racist Classroom

jesús j. hernández and Carmine Perrotti

Abstract: This chapter explores ungrading, collaborative course design, and assessment as a tool for preparing students to plan and execute anti-racist community engagement. The authors share how practicing co-creation, critical reflection, and self-assessment strategies with students prepared then for collaborations with community partners and in their project designs.

• Self-Assessment Questions: Ungrading
  jesús j. hernández and Carmine Perrotti

• Mid-Semester Reflection and Self-Assessment: Ungrading
  jesús j. hernández and Carmine Perrotti

• End of Semester Reflection and Self-Assessment: Ungrading
  jesús j. hernández and Carmine Perrotti

“Doing the Work”: Making Space for Undergraduate Students to Participate in Anti-Racist Community Engagement

Carlea Dolcine, Deborah Keisch, Maurice Powe, and Lindiwe Sibeko

Abstract: This chapter features reflections of two BIPOC student leaders who collaborated with community leaders to plan and run a series of student–community conversations about anti-racism. The authors share how students discovered that their own cultural wealth provided a basis for them to “do the work” of disrupting white supremacy and making space for healing justice.

• Agendas: Community Conversations
  Carlea Dolcine, Deborah Keisch, Maurice Powe, and Lindiwe Sibeko

Communal Place, Communal Learning: An Approach to Student-Centered Community Engagement

Olga M. Correa, Kelsey Ruiz, and Anastasia Morton

Abstract: This chapter details a collaborative after-school program where university and high school students analyze the barriers to and pathways into higher education for BIPOC youth. The authors provide a rich example of collaborative learning that values minoritized students and offers them opportunities to apply their knowledges and expertise.

• Check-In Questions for Students: Student-Centered Community Engagement
  Olga M. Correa, Kelsey Ruiz, and Anastasia Morton

• Critical Reflection Journal Prompts: Student-Centered Community Engagement
  Olga M. Correa, Kelsey Ruiz, and Anastasia Morton

• Music Playlist Prompts and Songs: Student-Centered Community Engagement
  Olga M. Correa, Kelsey Ruiz, and Anastasia Morton

The Front Porch Gathering as a Compassionate Classroom

Suchitra V. Gururaj, Jeremy Horne, Meme Styles, and Emmet E. Campos

Abstract: This chapter shares a project that decenters higher education and centers the community through an open and reciprocal learning environment. The authors detail a “front porch” for community-university conversations with university stakeholders that aims to address past harm and present challenges experienced by community members.

• Event Calendar: Front Porch Gathering
  Suchitra V. Gururaj, Jeremy Horne, Meme Styles, and Emmet E. Campos

• Event Flyer: Front Porch Gathering
  Suchitra V. Gururaj, Jeremy Horne, Meme Styles, and Emmet E. Campos

• Event Recap: Front Porch Gathering
  Suchitra V. Gururaj, Jeremy Horne, Meme Styles, and Emmet E. Campos

Treading to the Sound of Our Own Beat: Black Girls’ Personal Connections to Art as a Mode of Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Learning

Alexandria C. Onuoha

Abstract: This chapter focuses on an Afro-Caribbean dance workshop that provided affirming experiences and promoted the well-being of Black girls at a community center. The author demonstrates how she was also a student, learning from the insights the girls generated during her workshop.

• Mini Digital Library: Black Girls’ Personal Connections to Art
  Alexandria C. Onuoha

“The Class Feels Like It Should Be Illegal”: Latinx Experiences and the Promise of Anti-Racist Pedagogies

Aldo Garcia-Guevara and Francisco Vivoni

Abstract: This chapter describes how by sharing their own struggles as BIPOC faculty, scholars were able to connect and generate knowledge with students. The authors explain how the process they describe runs contrary to the university’s normative white culture.

• Project Description: DIY Glossary
  Aldo Garcia-Guevara and Francisco Vivoni