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Making Citizenship Work seeks to address central questions of how a community reaches a place where it can actually make citizenship work, and what does citizenship represent to different communities.
List of contents
Part 1: History as an ongoing Human Struggle 1. The Connection between Culture, Community, and Citizenship 2. Imagining Radical Entanglement for Social Change: Thinking Through the Problems of the We-group 3. Building Critical Radical Communities: Liberation Pedagogies and the Origins of Black Studies 4. Community as the Basis of Resistance: A Historical Analysis
Part 2: Culture as the Basis of Human Dignity 5. How Prison Survivors Shift What Civic Participation Means: Incarceration and Activism in the Pandemic: 6. The Struggle for Mexican American Studies in Texas K-12 Public Schools: A Movement for Epistemic Justice through Creation and Resistance 7. Remembering and Reconciling: Native American Women, Community, and Citizenship
Part 3: Community, Agency, Citizenship 8. The Baltimore Uprising and the Stunted Transformation of Urban Black Politics 9. Re-Membering Native Citizens in an Age of Native Terminations: Ideas on How to Restore Indigenous Community 10. Relating Street-level Practices in Marketplaces to ever-changing Social Institutions 11. Against Borders: Latinx Youth Activism and Enactments of Citizenship
Part 4: The Historical Roots of Community Agency 12. Salus Populi ~ From the Pacific to the Americas: Community Health, Resistance, and Solidarity 13. Carbon copies: Colonial Recognition, Climate Crisis, and Indigenous Belonging
About the author
Rodolfo Rosales is a retired Associate Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio where his teaching focused on political philosophy, urban politics, and ethnic politics. He has worked on questions of community, identity, and citizenship from a structure/agency perspective.
Summary
Making Citizenship Work seeks to address central questions of how a community reaches a place where it can actually make citizenship work, and what does citizenship represent to different communities.
