Preface : using history, experience, and theory to balance relationships in community engagement / Stephanie Y. Evans -- Introduction : Characteristics of engagement : communicated experiences of race, universities, and communities -- Pt. 1. Community service, volunteerism, and engagement / Stephanie Y. Evans ... [et al.]. The community folk art center: a university and community creative collaboration / Kheli R. Willetts ; An African American health care experience: an academic medical center and its interdisciplinary practice / Kendall M. Campbell ; African American college students and volunteerism: attitudes toward mentoring at a title I school / Joi Nathan ; Prejudice, pitfalls, and promise: experiences in community service in a historically black university / Jeff Brooks --Pt. 2. Community service-learning / Michelle R. Dunlap. Can the village educate the prospective teacher?: Reflections on multicultural service-learning in African American communities / Lucy Mule ; Sowing seeds of success: gardening as a method of increasing academic self-efficacy and retention among African American students / August Hoffman ... [et al.] ; A service or a commitment?: A Black man teaching service-learning at a predominantly white institution / Troy Harden ; Racial identity and the ethics of service-learning as pedagogy / Annemarie Vaccaro ; "We'll understand it better by and by": a three-dimensional approach to teaching race through community engagement / Meta Mendel-Reyes and Dwayne A. Mack -- Pt. 3. Community-based research / DeMond S. Miller. Black like me: navigating race, gender, research, and community / Fleda Mask Jackson ; A partnership with the African American Church: IMPPACT and S.P.I.C.E.S. for life / Micah McCreary ... [et al.] ; "I have three strikes against me": narratives of plight and efficacy among older African American homeless women and their implications for engaged inquiry / Olivia G.M. Washington and David P. Moxley ; A culturally competent community-based research approach with African American neighborhoods: critical components and examples / Richard Briscoe ... [et al.] ; Community engagement and collaborations in community-based research: the road to project butterfly / GiShawn Mance, Bernadette Sánchez, and Niambi Jaha-Echols -- Final word: African Americans and community engagement: a challenge and opportunity for higher education / Donald F. Blake.
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