Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 9-30-2009
Journal / Book Title
Journal of African American Studies
Abstract
Often, African American community organizations are distanced from government institutional practices. In response, they may approach local academics to help bridge the divide. This think piece explores lessons that one academic scholar learned during the process of writing and distributing an applied report that ultimately helped a community organization to gain access to the governmental decision-making process. In exploring the project, we first focus on the process and value of shifting from a charity orientation to a social justice orientation. Second, we use the report itself to provide examples of essential, concrete aspects of social justice-oriented products. In the end, we argue that academic scholars can contribute to community empowerment if (1) an asset rather than deficit orientation is employed and (2) scholars are viewed as community assets rather than institutional resources.
DOI
DOI: 10.1007/s12111-009-9108-3
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Leech, Tamara and Potts, Edrose Jr., "Community Empowerment through an Academic Product: Implications for the Social-justice" (2009). Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works. 164.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/public-health-facpubs/164
Published Citation
Leech, Tamara GJ, and Edrose Potts. "Community empowerment through an academic product: Implications for the social-justice-oriented scholar." Journal of African American Studies 14, no. 1 (2010): 75-86. Harvard
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