Democracy and Community

Building power through institutions, relationships, and accountability

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Forging Radical Alliances Across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium | By Jill Bystydzienski & Steven Schacht

Forging Radical Alliances Across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium

"Bystydzienski, Jill & Schacht, Steven (2001). Forging Radical Alliances Across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Milleneum. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp. 133-145."

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International Change Maker and Community Organiser Leaves Audience Inspired After Visit to College of Social Sciences — Article | By Ernesto Cortes Jr.

International Change Maker and Community Organiser Leaves Audience Inspired After Visit to College of Social Sciences — Article

University of Birmingham article (2017).

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Back to Shared Prosperity, Chapter 35: Justice at the Gates of the City: A Model of Shared Prosperity | By Ernesto Cortes Jr.

Back to Shared Prosperity, Chapter 35: Justice at the Gates of the City: A Model of Shared Prosperity

Justice at the Gates of the City: A Model of Shared Prosperity Back to Shared Prosperity: the Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America Edited by Ray Marshall, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. 1999.

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Habits of Democracy | By Ernesto Cortes Jr.

Habits of Democracy

Habits of Democracy Texas Observer, November 17, 2006.

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On the Power of Education and Community Action | Ernesto Cortes Jr.

On the Power of Education and Community Action

On the Power of Education and Community Action Latinos and the Nation's Future. By Henry C. Cisneros. Houston, Texas: Arte Publico Press. 2009.

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Quality Education as a Civil Right: Reflections, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools. | By Ernesto Cortes Jr

Quality Education as a Civil Right: Reflections, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools.

Quality Education as a Civil Right: Reflections Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools. Edited by Theresa Perry, Robert Moses, Joan Wynne, Ernesto Cortes, Jr. and Lisa Delpit. Boston: Beacon Press. 2011. Review by the New England Journal of Higher Education.

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Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church | By Samuel G. Freedman

Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church

Freedman, Samuel G. (1994). Perennial.

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Metis and the Metrics of Success | By Ernesto Cortes Jr.

Metis and the Metrics of Success

Metis and the Metrics of Success I Used to Think...And Now I Think... Edited by Richard Elmore. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press. 2011

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The Complex Task of the Parish | By Rev. Philip Murnion

The Complex Task of the Parish

Murnion, Philip (1978). The Complex Task of the Parish. Origins NC documentary service.

Legacy Readings

Reweaving the Social Fabric | By Ernesto Cortes Jr.

Reweaving the Social Fabric

Reweaving the Social Fabric, Kettering Review, Summer 1996.