Intellectuals in the Public: Uniting a Divided Baltimore

The University of Baltimore offered a community-based course following the Baltimore unrest in 2015. The course, which we called Divided Baltimore, engaged scores of students and community members together in a weekly forum of presentations and hard discussion. It focused on how Baltimore became seg...

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Published in:The Professional geographer 2019-01, Vol.71 (1), p.157-160
Main Author: Wood, Joseph S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Baltimore
Colleges & universities
Community
community engagement
Community involvement
compromiso comunitario
Discrimination
Fairness
igualdad racial
intelectuales en lo público
Intellectuals
intellectuals in the public
Partnerships
racial equity
Racism
Segregation
Systemic racism
公领域中的知识份子
巴尔的摩
社区参与
种族平等
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Summary:The University of Baltimore offered a community-based course following the Baltimore unrest in 2015. The course, which we called Divided Baltimore, engaged scores of students and community members together in a weekly forum of presentations and hard discussion. It focused on how Baltimore became segregated, how segregation affects all Baltimoreans, and what we could do about it. I discuss how the course worked, what we learned, and how we were able to pull off the course in short order. The key to what we accomplished was having built community partnerships around structural racism and racial equity in Baltimore over a period of several years before 2015. The lesson is that we can all do this-all be intellectuals in the public-if first we invest the time, our talents, and our intellectual energy in community engagement.
ISSN:0033-0124
1467-9272
DOI:10.1080/00330124.2018.1453183