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Students, faculty and community partners alike will find Civic Engagement in Diverse Latinx Communities accessible, as the text demonstrates that personal experiences are powerful tools for the production of an epistemology of social justice that aims to investigate and develop new Latinx community-university praxis.

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Students, faculty, and community partners alike will find Civic Engagement in Diverse Latinx Communities: Learning From Social Justice Partnerships in Action accessible not only because it includes an array of examples regarding Latinx civic engagement, but it also demonstrates that personal experiences are powerful tools for the production of new knowledge. This book reveals an epistemology of social justice that aims to investigate and develop a new Latinx community-university praxis for how to engage with diverse communities in the twenty-first century.

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Acknowledgements - Mari Casta¤eda/Joseph Krupczynski: Introduction: Toward a Latinx Community-Academic Praxis of Civic Engagement - Section I: Rethinking Community and Civic Engagement - Antonieta Mercado: Civic Engagement: Learning From Teaching Community Praxis - Joseph Krupczynski: Imagining a Nueva Casita: Puerto Rican Subjectivities and the Space of the "In-between" on an Urban Farm in Western Massachusetts - Claudia A. Evans-Zepeda: Subject-Heading or Social Justice Solidarity? Civic Engagement Practices of Latinx Undocumented Immigrant Students - Marisel Moreno: Keeping It Real: Bridging U.S. Latino/a Literature and Community Through Student Engagement - Clara Román-Odio/Patricia Mota/Amelia Dunnell: Public Humanities and Community-Engaged Learning: Building Strategies for Undergraduate Research and Civic Engagement - Section II: Community Voices and the Politics of Place - Jonathan Rosa: Community as a Campus: From "Problems" to Possibilities in Latinx Communities - Judith Flores Carmona: Motherists´ Pedagogies of Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Rights and Space in a Xenophobic Era - J. Estrella Torrez: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Respect: Storytelling as a Means of University-Community Engagement - Celeste Gonzaìlez de Bustamante: Arizona-Sonora 360: Examining and Teaching Contested Moral Geographies Along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands - Ginetta E. B. Candelario: Saber es Poder: Teaching and Learning About Social Inequality in a New England Latin@ Community - Section III: Expanding the Media and Cultural Power of Communities - Jillian M. Báez: Media Literacy as Civic Engagement - Katynka Z. Martínez: "I Exist Because You Exist:" Teaching History and Supporting Student Engagement via Bilingual Community Journalism - Jessica Retis: Hashtag Jovenes Latinos: Teaching Civic Advocacy Journalism in Glocal Contexts - Sonya M. Alemán: Chicana/o Media Pedagogies: How Activism and Engagement Transform Student of Color Journalists - Rogelio Mi¤ana: Lessons From Migrant Youth: Digital Storytelling and the Engaged Humanities in Springfield, MA - Contributors - Index.

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