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