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In the Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council (HFFPC) case study, the challenges of providing equitable multistakeholder organizing are examined. The importance of housing the work in the community, power sharing, and having community representation in the leadership is made clear. The HFFPC partnership began with vigor, encountered challenges of trust, transparency, aligned goals and values; it dissolved, and reformed. Because it began with shared values of strong communities and healthy people, the partnership continues to evolve, build local leadership, change narratives, and articulate the need for racial equity in their food system, while shifting local systems and policies that frame who has access to healthy food and safe spaces to exercise in a low-income Latino community.

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Native Persons: An Assessment of their Relationship to the Dominant Culture and Challenges for Change

Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health ◽

10.7870/cjcmh-1982-0014 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 21-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Edward M. Bennett

Keyword(s):

Power Loss ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Dominant Culture ◽

Cultural Considerations ◽

Community Power ◽

Northwestern Ontario ◽

Mental Well Being ◽

Effective Integration

The paper identifies and examines some of the economic, political, religious and social structures created by the dominant white culture and their effects on the mental well-being of the Cree and Ojibwa people residing in Northwestern Ontario. Two major clusters of problems are identified: (i) community power-loss and disenfranchisement and (ii) the establishment of norms which diminish the identity and self-esteem of native persons. Actions which deal with both kinds of power-loss are suggested. The range of goals for these activities include more effective integration, cross cultural considerations and native control over community and resource development. Important functions are identified for community psychologists in program and community assessment and development, public education and advocacy.

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A Special Intermittence and Continuity in Local History: The Chinese Diaspora and Their Hometown in Battlefield Quemoy during 1949-1960s

Journal of Chinese Overseas ◽

10.1163/179325411x595396 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 169-186 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chiang Bo-wei

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Local History ◽

The State ◽

Chinese Diaspora ◽

Overseas Chinese ◽

Military Rule ◽

Close Attention ◽

Community Power ◽

The Military ◽

The Relationship

Abstract From 1949, Quemoy became the battlefront between the warring Nationalists and Communists as well as the frontline between Cold War nations. Under military rule, social and ideological control suppressed the community power of traditional clans and severed their connection with fellow countrymen living abroad. For 43 long years up until 1992, Quemoy was transformed from an open hometown of the Chinese diaspora into a closed battlefield and forbidden zone. During the war period, most of the Quemoy diasporic Chinese paid close attention to the state of their hometown including the security of their family members and property. In the early 1950s, they tried to keep themselves informed of the situation in Quemoy through any available medium and build up a new channel of remittances. Furthermore, as formal visits of the overseas Chinese were an important symbol of legitimacy for the KMT, Quemoy emigrants had been invited by the military authority to visit their hometown since 1950. This was in fact the only channel for the Chinese diaspora to go home. Using official files, newspapers and records of oral histories, this article analyzes the relationship between the Chinese diaspora and the battlefield, Quemoy, and takes a look at the interactions between family and clan members of the Chinese diaspora during 1949-1960s. It is a discussion of a special intermittence and continuity of local history.

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Local and Community Power in Angola

The Western Political Quarterly ◽

10.2307/446613 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 400 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Norman A. Bailey

Keyword(s):

Community Power

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