.... Yet what the postapartheid case underscores is that such reactive approaches are woefully inadequate to address the complexity of violence that individuals, families, and communities face. The service providers in this project argue that the prevention of gender-based violence starts with community...

...Chapter 2 illustrates how familial networks helped Mexicans and Puerto Ricans settle in Grand Rapids from the 1940s to the 1960s. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans aided one another in finding housing and jobs in this period, marking the beginning of the process of pan-Latino community formation. It also...

... Recreation Placemaking Church Festivals Community Red, white, and green streamers adorned a 1964 Pontiac Bonneville convertible as it slowly drove from the Cathedral of St. Andrew through downtown Grand Rapids to Calder Plaza, in September 1971 (fig. 1). The route was no more than a mile. The car...

...This concluding chapter focuses upon the most significant points of discussion of the previous chapters. It notes that conversion to Mormonism does not entail an outright rejection of the traditions of the majority society. Rather, the continued emphasis on family, community, tradition, and Jesus...

... and anarchist criminology grounded in longstanding BIPOC, feminist, and anti-capitalist epistemologies. The chapter then examines a case study of Alternative-Justices-based community strategies to address sexual, gender, and partner violence, and create non-carceral systems of accountability for victim...

... Angeles Central Avenue Benny Carter Lee Young Los Angeles AFM Local 767 Los Angeles AFM Local 47 Buddy Collette Charles Mingus Marl Young Community Symphony Orchestra Like Chicago, Los Angeles by the 1940s had developed a lively, innovative, but racially segregated Black music scene...

...This chapter discusses the benefits and challenges of connecting university students with artistic communities outside the university, particularly through the practice of inviting professional musicians into the classroom as guests. It argues for the value of treating such guests like coteachers...

... community singing. After the decline of tabernacle revivalism, he successfully transferred his ideas to recorded music, radio, and film. While other gospel musicians had success in one or two of these areas, Rodeheaver brokered all of them to create the modern Christian music industry. His seminal influence...

... of Montserrat story of Malia story of Akilah story of Sims the physical space for COMPUGIRLS graffiti voices of COMPUGIRLS cultural connectedness adult roles at COMPUGIRLS ultimate intent of COMPUGIRLS Gibson K S peer system space community reflection asset building connectedness HONOR SOCIETY...

...This chapter explores how, following their respective moves to South Michigan Avenue, the offices of the Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing Company became key sites in the urban geography of Black America. As community centers, art galleries, meeting spaces, and tourist hotspots...

...This section serves as an epilogue, concluding the book’s analysis in 1848, a time of civic, industrial, and religious maturation for the states of the Old Northwest. Railroads provided new channels of communication and exchange, while civic townscapes began to reflect the architectural refinement...

...This chapter focuses on the South Side Community Art Center and the South Side Writers' Group that predate the fame of Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks. As pillars of the Bronzeville's community, these institutions of art and literature generated a unique aesthetic consciousness/political...

... typically served with stuffed veal breast; and Ruth Dunie's recipes for matzo-balls and lemon-flavored cake. All these recipes represent the mosaic that is the Midwest Jewish community. They are distinctly and firmly grounded in cultural and religious traditions, both Ashkenazic...

...This chapter examines the geographies of community and resistance in Salem following the fire. The Salem fire created immediate and pressing problems for residents: where to sleep and what to eat. The next morning, the militia began to establish two large refugee camps that soon sparked tensions...

..., the Nisei had to assimilate fully into Japanese culture. Those who succeeded in doing so were able to “merge into the Japanese mainstream community and keep their invisibility.” This requirement went against the grain of Kurihara's nature, his self-identity as an individual with freedom to express himself...

... map of nineteenth-century food infrastructure, and editing as-yet unpublished diaries from a local farming family. Combining in real life (IRL) experiences for students in the form of community-engaged service learning with digital humanities pedagogy, students bring local materials to new and wider...

... praising the music or decrying it, white authors during the so-called Jazz Age of the 1920s tended to regard the period's eponymous music as something that perhaps originated in the African American community, but that, by the time of their writing, had been fully integrated into the American cultural...

...This chapter traces the history of two competing views about the role of high school football in American communities: the “Football Town” and the “Friday Night Lights syndrome.” “Friday Night Lights” was named after H. G. Bissinger's 1990 book Friday Night Lights, a journalistic...

...This chapter examines the diasporic quality of Red Sox Nation and the effects of winning two World Series on its (formerly “angst-ridden”) citizenry. For Boston Red Sox fans, the definition of home has always been blurry. Red Sox fans have always been part of a diasporic New England community more...

... communities. It explores the rise of festivals and organizations, which became focal points for diversity and provided the accordion scene with a core identity. The chapter also considers a renewed interest in learning to play folk and traditional music, workshop participation, and accordion collecting...