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"This essential, timely book meets us at our current moment of crisis to offer hope that American democracy's stalled trajectory toward its founding creed to embrace all, and not just some, can indeed be re-invigorated. Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons is about low-income youth of color working within justice-oriented, community-based organizations to improve the social and spatial conditions in their surroundings. It draws from hundreds of pages of data, some collected over a decade ago by graduate research assistants at three universities and some collected recently by a graduate research assistant at a fourth university, to present verbatim quotes from interviews with constituents of three youth-serving organizations. The book posits that the disinvested neighborhoods where youth experience abandonment and marginality in fact can serve as a call to action, given appropriate organizational support"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue | vii
Introduction: The Need for a Place-Based Approach | 1
PART I: SOUTHWEST DETROIT, MICHIGAN: ACTIVISM THROUGH THEATRE | 29
Historical Context | 31
2004-2005 Narrative | 39
2020-2021 Context and Narrative | 54
Theorizing the Narratives | 60
PART II: WAI'ANAE, HAWAI'I: ACTIVISM THROUGH ORGANIC FARMING | 77
Historical Context | 81
2004-2005 Narrative | 88
2020-2021 Narrative | 100
Theorizing the Narratives | 114
PART III: HARLEM, NEW YORK: ACTIVISM THROUGH CRITICAL INQUIRY | 127
Historical Context | 129
2004-2005 Narrative | 136
2020-2021 Narrative | 148
Theorizing the Narratives | 163
Conclusions: Pedagogy of a Beloved Community | 177
Epilogue | 207
Bibliography | 217
Index | 229
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sharon Egretta Sutton is an educator, licensed architect, and outspoken champion for improving disinvested communities. An early pioneer in moving the field of architecture toward equity and inclusion, she is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture at Parsons School of Design. Sutton has written several books; her most recent publication is
When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities (Fordham, 2017).
