Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity

561 Pages·2021·4.89 MB·English

Community Organizing and
Community Building for
Health and Social Equity

Community Organizing and
Community Building for
Health and Social Equity
Fourth Edition
EDITED BY
MEREDITH MINKLER
PATRICIA WAKIMOTO
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW BRUNSWICK, CAMDEN, AND NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Minkler, Meredith, editor.
Title: Community organizing and community building for health and social equity /
edited by Meredith Minkler ; associate edited by Patricia Wakimoto.
Other titles: Community organizing and community building for health and welfare.
Description: Fourth edition. | New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press,
[2022] | Revision of: Community organizing and community building for health and
welfare. 3rd ed. 2012. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021011296 | ISBN 9781978824744 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781978824751 (hardback) | ISBN 9781978824768 (epub) |
ISBN 9781978824775 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Health promotion. | Community health services—Citizen
participation. | Community organization. | Community development.
Classification: LCC RA427.8 .C64 2022 | DDC 362.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021011296
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In loving memory of Roy S. Minkler, an extraordinary father
and human being, who worked for racial justice in the
public school trenches and was my North Star and the greatest
teacher I’ve ever known. And to the countless community organizers
and other frontline workers who continue to inspire me with their
work and their commitments to health equity and social justice,
sometimes at great personal cost.

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xiii
Foreword by Antony B. Iton xv
PART ONE
Introduction
1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community
Building in a New Era 7
MEREDITH MINKLER AND PATRICIA WAKIMOTO
2 Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City 26
BARACK OBAMA
PART TWO
Contextual Frameworks and Approaches
3 Improving Health through Community Organizing and
Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education
and Social Work 35
MEREDITH MINKLER, NINA WALLERSTEIN, AND
CHERYL A. HYDE
4 Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for
Achieving Health and Social Equity 53
DEREK M. GRIFFITH AND HEATHER CAME
5 Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition”
and Freirian Organizing Approaches 62
MARTY MARTINSON, CELINA SU, AND
MEREDITH MINKLER
6 It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in
Jackson, Mississippi 78
MAKANI THEMBA
vii
viii CONTENTS
PART THREE
Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating
and Addressing Ethical Challenges
7 Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of
Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 91
RONALD LABONTÉ
8 Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building 110
MEREDITH MINKLER, CHERI A. PIES,
PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND CHERYL A. HYDE
9 Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from
King County’s Communities of Opportunity 129
ROXANA CHEN, KIRSTEN WYSEN, BLISHDA LACET,
WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND STEPHANIE A. FARQUHAR
PART FOUR
Community Assessment and Issue Selection
10 Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community
Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health?
Whose Assessment? 147
TREVOR HANCOCK AND MEREDITH MINKLER
11 Mapping Community Capacity 166
JOHN L. McKNIGHT, JOHN P. KRETZMANN, AND
LIONEL J. BEAULIEU
12 Selecting the Issue 183
LEE STAPLES AND RINKU SEN
PART FIVE
Community Organizing and Community Building
within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures
13 Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in
Community Organizing with Women of Color 205
LORRAINE M. GUTIÉRREZ AND EDITH A. LEWIS
CONTENTS ix
14 Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to
Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the
Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic 220
LAURA A. LINNAN, STEPHEN B. THOMAS, AND
SUSAN R. PASSMORE
15 Popular Education, Participatory Research, and
Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant
Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study 236
CHARLOTTE CHANG, ALICIA L. SALVATORE,
PAM TAU LEE, SHAW SAN LIU, AND
MEREDITH MINKLER
PART SIX
Using the Arts and the Internet as
Tools for Community Organizing
and Community Building
16 Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective
Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the
Power of the Internet 261
NICKIE BAZELL AND EVAN VANDOMMELEN-GONZALEZ
17 Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community
Building: An Overview and Case Studies 280
CARICIA CATALANI, ANNE BLUETHENTHAL,
DIERDRE VISSER, MARÍA ELENA TORRE, AND
MEREDITH MINKLER
PART SEVEN
Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating
Effective Coalitions and
Community Organizing Efforts
18 Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and
Evaluating Community Collaboratives 307
FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS AND MICHELLE C. KEGLER
19 Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through
a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition
Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity
and Justice 325
PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, SUSANA HENNESSEY LAVERY,
MEREDITH MINKLER, AND JESSICA ESTRADA