By Aimée Knight
Copy edited by Karen P. Peirce. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
How can we design for equity and justice in our community partnerships? This field guide offers a vision for enacting social justice with community partners. Working from a community’s resources and strengths toward the goal of building its internal capacity, this book considers how actions such as grassroots activism, decolonization efforts, co-resistance movements, and social change initiatives can support reciprocity and mutuality. Community is the Way provides examples of concrete, situated action grounded in disciplinary knowledge and extensive fieldwork. Reflecting on her experiences operating a community writing program, author Aimée Knight argues that the equity-based approach described in this book requires a commitment to interrogating how power, oppression, resistance, privilege, penalties, benefits, and harms are built into the systems we seek to change. Knight offers a community-led approach that builds bridges of understanding and support and charts a path toward transformative change.
Educators’ Toolkit. In addition to the book, Knight offers an Educator’s Toolkit for free download. The Toolkit is crafted for faculty, instructors, and educational facilitators interested in bringing dynamic conversations about equity and co-creation into their classrooms. Designed for use in both graduate and undergraduate courses, the Toolkit offers a range of resources—including reading reflection prompts, discussion questions, writing reflection activities, and media worksheets—that can enrich curriculum and foster critical engagement.
