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Students, faculty, and community partners alike will find Civic Engagement in Diverse Latinx Comm... more 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. ABOUT THE CO-EDITORS Mari Castañeda is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and affiliated with the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latina/o Studies. Her fields of study include Latinx/Chicana communication, academic labor, and digital media policy. Her engaged scholarship has appeared in various journals/monographs and she has three co-edited books. oseph Krupczynski is Director of Civic Engagement and Service-Learning and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A designer, public artist and educator, his creative work and scholarship promotes reciprocal community partnerships and creates participatory processes to explore equity and social justice within the built environment. Professor Krupczynski is a founding director of the design resource center, The Center for Design Engagement (CDE) in Holyoke, MA (www.designengagement.org). TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Toward a Latinx Community-Academic Praxis of Civic Engagement Mari Castañeda & Joseph Krupczynski SECTION I: RETHINKING COMMUNITY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Chapter 1 – Civic Engagement: Learning from Teaching Community Praxis Antonieta Mercado Chapter 2 – Imagining a Nueva Casita: Puerto Rican Subjectivities and the Space of the “In-between” on an Urban Farm in Western Massachusetts Joseph Krupczynski Chapter 3 – Subject-Heading or Social Justice Solidarity? Civic Engagement Practices of Latinx Undocumented Immigrant Students Claudia A. Evans-Zepeda Chapter 4 – Keeping It Real: Bridging U.S. Latino/a Literature and Community Through Student Engagement Marisel Moreno Chapter 5 – Public Humanities and Community-Engaged Learning: Building Strategies for Undergraduate Research and Civic Engagement Clara Román-Odio, Patricia Mota, & Amelia Dunnell SECTION II: COMMUNITY VOICES AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE Chapter 6 – Community as a Campus: From “Problems” to Possibilities in Latinx Communities Jonathan Rosa Chapter 7 – Motherists’ Pedagogies of Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Rights and Space in a Xenophobic Era Judith Flores Carmona Chapter 8 – Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Respect: Storytelling as a Means of University-Community Engagement J. Estrella Torrez Chapter 9 – Arizona-Sonora 360: Examining and Teaching Contested Moral Geographies along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Celeste González de Bustamante Chapter 10 – Saber es Poder: Teaching and Learning about Social Inequality in a New England Latin@ Community Ginetta E. B. Candelario SECTION III: EXPANDING THE MEDIA AND CULTURAL POWER OF COMMUNITIES Chapter 11 – Media Literacy as Civic Engagement Jillian M. Báez Chapter 12 – “I Exist Because You Exist:” Teaching History and Supporting Student Engagement via Bilingual Community Journalism Katynka Z. Martínez Chapter 13 – Hashtag Jóvenes Latinos: Teaching Civic Advocacy Journalism in Glocal Contexts Jessica Retis Chapter 14 – Chicana/o Media Pedagogies: How Activism and Engagement Transform Student of Color Journalists Sonya M. Alemán Chapter 15 – Lessons from Migrant Youth: Digital Storytelling and the Engaged Humanities in Springfield, MA Rogelio Miñana

Papers by Joseph Krupczynski

Figure 1. Timeline of select project activities and milestones. Credit: Center for Design Engagem... more Figure 1. Timeline of select project activities and milestones. Credit: Center for Design Engagement. SITE DOCUMENTATION Project area documented and potential sites inventoried. SITE IDENTIFICATION Over 30 sites identified for artistic projects. Early concepts Conceptual design of potential projects for community engagement and fundraising. advisory group Comprised of local residents, leaders, and activists. Meets monthly to discuss project progress. engagement sessions Participated in local events to engage residents & gather data on area uses, perceptions, and needs. community survey Community Survey of 100+ residents exploring current and desired neighborhood arts and culture. Activists workshop Educational program focused on notable activists from Holyoke and Puerto Rico with DIY silkscreening workshop. poetry workshop Reading and discussion on the history of Puerto Rican poetry with noted translator, editor, essayist, and literary critic Roberto Márquez. cultural RECOGNITION Ongoing efforts to designate a cultural district along the Main Street areas of South Holyoke and the Flats.

El Corazón • The Heart of Holyoke is a creative place-making project whose primary objective is t... more El Corazón • The Heart of Holyoke is a creative place-making project whose primary objective is to develop spaces and places of belonging for the largest per-capita Puerto Rican community in the diaspora. Located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, El Corazón is being developed through a Public Art and Creative Placemaking Master Planning process supported by federal, state, and local funding agencies. This work is proceeding concurrently with the development of the new Puerto Rican Cultural Area, a district that celebrates and makes visible the cultural vitality of the city’s significant Latinx population. The master planning process has featured broad strategic engagement. The plan proposes public art and infrastructure projects along Main Street that reflect a complex understanding of personal, social and cultural meanings of space in order to create sustainable and equitable urban spaces / places. The creative projects include two decommissioned electrical towers that will be transformed...

Winner of an open public competition, “Arrivals” is a public art + infrastructure project at the ... more Winner of an open public competition, “Arrivals” is a public art + infrastructure project at the Mosher St. Underpass in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The project transforms a key gateway between downtown Holyoke and an adjacent residential neighborhood into a safe, inviting, and creative attraction. The intention of the project is to contrast the singular image of the city with the multiple voices of residents’ arrival stories, and in doing so, capture Holyoke’s rich immigrant and migrant experience. The $35,000, CDBG-funded creative placemaking project is a direct response to the immediate context of its site, which is adjacent to the historic gateway to the city–H.H. Richardson’s former train station

<p>This chapter explores university civic engagement efforts that emphasize a Latinx commun... more <p>This chapter explores university civic engagement efforts that emphasize a Latinx community-academic praxis and centers social justice, equity, reciprocity, and the importance of Latinx voices in creating a more just world. Tracing alternative histories and critical approaches to civic engagement and service-learning, we outline how students and scholars of color have insisted that their communities are multifaceted, capable of knowledge production, teachers in their own right, and deserving of having their collective memories and lived experiences taken seriously within the walls of the ivory tower. Our acknowledgment of the work of Latinx social movements, as well as critical engagement with several academic traditions, such as Latina/o critical theory, critical race theory, and Chicana feminism, demonstrate how knowledge creation can be in service to community empowerment. This approach emphasizes some of the epistemological ways in which traditional civic engagement models and community-based learning in higher education can be decentered, challenged, and reimagined. These insights are highlighted through examples of how scholar-activists, who have developed higher educational courses and community-based research projects, engage not only students as partners in knowledge production but also creatively cultivate ways in which Latinx communities can play a reciprocal role in the construction of knowledge.</p>

A "playful" downtown is the cumulative result of viable businesses, welcoming public spaces, inte... more A "playful" downtown is the cumulative result of viable businesses, welcoming public spaces, interesting architecture, recreational opportunities, planned and informal events, and an active arts, music and cultural scene. For the City of Westfield, achieving a playful downtown will be a multifaceted effort, and the city, local organizations, and residents are already working on many of the pieces that will help create this space. Within the Downtown Design Workshops, using vacant storefronts and empty lots, such as the Newbury Department Store lot, played a prominent role in discussions regarding the potential for temporary recreational and arts events to activate these underutilized spaces. Such sites offer opportunities to hold arts and entertainment events, including but not limited to; outdoor theatrical productions, live concerts, movie screenings on the sides of buildings, community picnics, community art and landscape installations, and public murals. Many long-time residents remember the Newbury Department Store fondly and the current empty lot is locally known as the "Hole," and desires to see something happen there-even if temporary-were quite strong. Short-term use of this site is especially attractive in that it would allow for immediate change and can act as an active placeholder until a long-term profitable use is developed.