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Community-University Partnerships For Change In The Black Belt South, Rosalind Harris
Community-University Partnerships For Change In The Black Belt South, Rosalind Harris
Professional Agricultural Workers Journal
This article explores issues related to community-university partnerships by examining
the unfolding of the Black Belt Initiative, a 21st century mobilization within the Black Belt South to establish a Black Belt Regional Commission. The Black Belt Initiative provides an instructive and compelling case study. For instance, the very nature of the Black Belt Initiative’s beginnings through the provision of a grant by Senator Zell Miller of Georgia to the University of Georgia with the proviso that “poverty – not race be the guiding principle…” heightened the tension between historically black and white universities reflecting longstanding contestations around how problems …