Multicultural Community Practice Strategies and
                    Intergroup Empowerment

Gutiérrez, Lorraine; Lewis, Edith A.; Nagda, Biren Ratnesh A; Wernick, Laura J.; Shore, Nancy

doi:10.4135/9781452220819.n18

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“…Most organizers work cross-culturally or with a variety of different individuals or groups (Gutierrez et al, 2005). By virtue of factors such as age, physical/mental abilities, income, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, or immigration status, some demographic groups may be relatively privileged members of society, whereas others are minoritized and disadvantaged.…”

Section: Cross-cultural Organizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entering the Community and Using Interviewing Skills to Understand People, Issues, and Opportunities

2022

Social Work Skills for Community Practice

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After reading this chapter, students will be able to:• Describe the role of interpersonal engagement in community organizing.• Identify skills and attributes of an effective interviewer.• Describe how social media can be used to facilitate community engagement.• Identify the need for cultural competency and cultural humility in community practice.■ Watch, listen, and, if the community of interest is a geographic space, walk around. Smile and greet the people who you meet.■ Observe people, listen to conversations, and ask questions.■ Find formal and informal groups of people in the community, and identify influential community leaders and people.

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Entering the Community and Using Interviewing Skills to Understand People, Issues, and Opportunities

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Social Work Skills for Community Practice

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“…The GTRC also falls within Weil and Gamble’s (2005) model of neighborhood and community organizing, as the intervention was rooted in one place, its constituents were community residents, and was geared to improving Greensboro’s quality of life. The GTRC’s use of public forums draws from peacemaking circles (Prannis, Stuart, & Wedge, 2003), restorative justice dialog circles (Umbreit & Armour, 2011), and community study circles (Gutierrez, Lewis, Nagda, Wernick, & Shore, 2005) which emphasize social change through dialog. These models of community practice encapsulate the GTRC’s commitment to participatory democracy (Bermanzohn, 2007).…”

Section: The Gtrc As a Model Of Community Practicementioning

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A case study of a grassroots truth and reconciliation commission from a community practice perspective

Androff

2016

Journal of Social Work

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Truth and Reconciliation Commissions represent an innovative model for social work practice. The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a community-based intervention that sought to address lingering social trauma and tension from a 1979 incident of racial violence in North Carolina. This case study analyzes the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission from a community practice perspective by highlighting relevant aspects of the intervention for social work practice. The intervention is examined along the community practice dimensions of context, theoretical basis, practice model, framing, strategy, and tactics. Each dimension is presented and related to a specific aspect of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission case. Findings: The historical context of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission includes legacies racism, labor exploitation, and violence that was pervasive in the U.S. south, as well as traditions of resistance to oppression. The theoretical underpinnings of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission include social constructionism and restorative justice. The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission falls within the community practice models of neighborhood and community organizing and community capacity development. The intervention was framed as a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and incorporated a strategy of inclusiveness. The community practice tactics of fundraising, outreach and recruitment, research and investigation, and public hearings were employed. Applications: This article concludes with assessments of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission's impact and implications for community practice, including

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“…For this reason, postmodern community‐building is sometimes framed as involving the capacity to recognize and accommodate oneself to strangers (Young, 1990), at other moments as the construction of complex solidarities across multiple oppressions (Ettlinger, 2002; Kelley, 1997). To some extent, these conceptions find important echoes within the practices of urban‐based social workers and planners who increasingly recognize different social identities and the need for multicultural practice (Gutiérrez et al, 2005; Weil & Gamble, 2005). Efforts to embrace multiple identities and constituencies within particular communities through representational mechanisms on governance entities and simultaneous translation at community meetings (e.g., Medoff & Sklar, 1994), or through incorporating design elements responsive to multiple ethnic and cultural traditions in development projects (e.g., Robinson, 2005) are some examples of this.…”

Section: Globalism and Postmodernism: Recent Intellectual Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframing Community Practice for the 21^StCentury: Multiple Traditions, Multiple Challenges

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Parks

2007

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Community" in the twenty-first century seems to be everywhere and nowhere. On the one hand, the rhetoric of community is omnipresent, as nonprofit organizations, civic associations, government agencies, and even multinational corporate entities routinely describe their activities to be community-oriented. On the other hand, community in the broader sense of shared interests or solidarities appears to be under unrelenting attack, challenged by sociopolitical forces and intellectual currents that point toward more fragmented social orders. Locating community as a particular field of practice poses similar dilemmas. This article summarizes the broad outlines of the history of "community organization" in the United States, emphasizing both its multiple traditions and the enduring nature of its practical and strategic dilemmas. It provides an analysis of the key intellectual and social challenges facing the field and the different kinds of pressures they may be exerting on the different traditions of community action. Finally, it suggests four "boundarycrossing" areas of activity that cut across the inherited traditions and may represent emerging sources of innovation for community-based action."Community" in the twenty-first century seems to be everywhere and nowhere. Although this state of affairs is hardly unprecedented-community has been lost, found, and rediscovered over the years with disturbing regularity (e.g., Stein, 1960;Sampson, 1999)-the problem is especially pressing today. On the one hand, the rhetoric of community is omnipresent, as nonprofit organizations, civic associations, government agencies, and even multinational corporate entities routinely describe their activities to be community-oriented. Long-neglected inner-city community areas have been rediscovered; new conceptions of communal ties (e.g., social capital) have emerged; new kinds of planned communities are being constructed. On the other hand, community in the broader sense of shared interests or solidarities appears to be under unrelenting

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Multicultural Community Practice Strategies and Intergroup Empowerment

Cited by 10 publications

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Entering the Community and Using Interviewing Skills to Understand People, Issues, and Opportunities

Entering the Community and Using Interviewing Skills to Understand People, Issues, and Opportunities

A case study of a grassroots truth and reconciliation commission from a community practice perspective

Reframing Community Practice for the 21^StCentury: Multiple Traditions, Multiple Challenges

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Multicultural Community Practice Strategies and Intergroup Empowerment

Cited by 10 publications

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Entering the Community and Using Interviewing Skills to Understand People, Issues, and Opportunities

Entering the Community and Using Interviewing Skills to Understand People, Issues, and Opportunities

A case study of a grassroots truth and reconciliation commission from a community practice perspective

Reframing Community Practice for the 21StCentury: Multiple Traditions, Multiple Challenges

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