Collaborating for Change

Susan Greenbaum is a retired professor of anthropology and member of the Sociological Initiatives board. She is the author of More than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa and Blaming the Poor:The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty (Rutgers University Press). She lives in Tampa, Florida.   Glenn Jacobs is a retired professor of sociology. He is the author of Charles Horton Cooley: Imagining Social Reality. He is a founding member and president of the Sociological Initiatives Foundation. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.   Prentice Zinn is a director of GMA Foundations, a philanthropic services organization based in Boston, Massachusetts.  

Introduction
SUSAN D. GREENBAUM
1 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It?
GLENN JACOBS
Part I Social Justice Organizing
3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive
BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT
4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research
LISA MARIE ALATORRE, BILAL ALI, JENNIFER FRIEDENBACH, CHRIS HERRING, T. J. JOHNSTON, AND DILARA YARBROUGH
5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing
JONATHAN BIX, WILLIAM HOYNES, AND PEGGY KAHN
Part II Worker Rights Activism
6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center VERONICA AVILA, CHRISTINA FLETES-ROMO, AND TEÓFILO REYES
7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots
TIM SIEBER AND NATALICIA TRACY
8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community
VICTORIA BRECKWICH VÁSQUEZ, DIANE BUSH, AND CARL WILMSEN
9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action
PABLO ALVARADO, CHRIS NEWMAN, BLISS REQUA-TRAUTZ, AND NIK THEODORE
10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York
CARLY FOX, REBECCA FUENTES, FABIOLA ORTIZ VALDEZ, GRETCHEN PURSER, AND KATHLEEN SEXSMITH
11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers
RICH HEYMAN AND EMILY TIMM
Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage
12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho
LEONTINA HORMEL, JULIAN MATTHEWS, ELLIOTT MOFFETT, CHRIS NORDEN, AND LUCINDA SIMPSON
13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model
ROBERT ELLIOTT AND JANNE UNDERRINER
14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action
PRENTICE ZINN, SUSAN D. GREENBAUM, AND GLENN JACOBS
Notes on Contributors
About the Foundation
Index