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Alaskan Fishing Communities
North Pacific Coast, Alaska


Andrews, Susan B., and John Creed. Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Fields, Leslie Leyland. The Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Le Sann, Alain. A Livelihood from Fishing: Globalization and Sustainable Fisheries Policies. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1997.

Lucidello, Suzanne, Michael Weber, and Robert Wieland. Fish, Markets, and Fishermen: The Economics of Overfishing. Washington: Island Press, 1999.

National Research Council. Sustaining Marine Fisheries. Washington: National Academy Press, 1999.

Safina, Carl. Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World’s Coasts and Beneath the Seas. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

Alternatives Federal Credit Union
Ithaca, New York


Gunn, Christopher, and Hazel Dayton. Reclaiming Capital: Democratic Initiatives and Community Development. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Hawken, Paul. Ecology of Commerce. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.

Oliver, Melvin L., and Thomas M. Shapiro. Black Wealth/White Wealth. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Parzen, Julia Ann, and Michael Hall Kieschnick. Credit Where It's Due: Development Banking for Communities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.

Shuman, Michael H. Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. New York: Free Press, 1998.

Williams, Marva E., and Sharyl Hudson. Building the Savings and Assets of Lower-Income Consumers: Examples from Community Development Credit Unions. Chicago: Woodstock Institute, 1999.
(See the Woodstock Institute Web link in the "Links" section of this site for ordering information.)

Citizens Observer Patrol, Haitian Citizens Police Academy and Roving Patrol, and MAD DADS Street Patrol
Delray Beach, Florida


Karp, David, ed. Community Justice: An Emerging Field. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

Laguerre, Michel S. Diasporic Citizenship: Haitian Americans in Transnational America. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Millman, Joel. The Other Americans. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

Mills, Nicolaus, ed. Arguing Immigration: The Debate over the Changing Face of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Skogan, Wesley G., Susan M. Hartnett, Jill DuBois, Jennifer T. Comey, Marianne Kaiser, and Justine H. Lovig. On the Beat: Police and Community Problem Solving. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.

Stepick, Alex, and Nancy Foner. Pride Against Prejudice: Haitians in the United States. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Communities in Harmony Advocating for Learning and Kids (CHALK)
San Francisco, California


Bolt, David B., and Ray Crawford. Digital Divide: Computers and Our Children's Future. New York: TV Books, 2000.

Bowen, Charles. Modem Nation: The Handbook of Grassroots American Activism Online. New York: Times Business, 1996.

Ender, Steven C., and Fred B. Newton. Students Helping Students: A Guide for Peer Educators on College Campuses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000.

Lewis, Barbara A. The Kid's Guide to Social Action: How to Solve the Social Problems You Choose and Turn Creative Thinking into Positive Action. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 1998.

National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth. Reconnecting Youth and Community: a Youth Development Approach. Silver Spring: National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth, 1996.
(See the National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth Web link in the "Links" section to download this document at no charge.)

Van Linden, Josephine A., and Carl I. Fertman. Youth Leadership: A Guide to Understanding Leadership Development in Adolescents. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.

Diné bí' íína', Inc. (Navajo Lifeways)
Navajo Nation


Blood, Charles L. and Martin Link. The Goat in the Rug. New York: Aladdin Books, 1990.

Bonar, Eulalie H., ed. Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

Boyce, George A. When Navajos Had Too Many Sheep: The 1940s. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1974.

Navajo Tribe, Dine of the Eastern Region, Lake Valley Navajo School. Oral History of the Long Walk/Hweeldi Baa Hane. Crownpoint: Crownpoint Lake Valley Navajo School, 1991.

Reichard, Gladys Amanda. Navajo Shepherd and Weaver. Enumclaw: MacRae Publications, 1977.

White, Richard. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

Eau Claire Community Council and
Eau Claire Community of Shalom
Eau Claire, South Carolina


Anderson, Elijah. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Gordon, Wayne L, and Randall Frame. Real Hope in Chicago: The Incredible Story of How the Gospel Is Transforming a Chicago Neighborhood. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995.

Hammond Moore, John. Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community, 1740-1990. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

Kretzmann, John P., and John L. McKnight. Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets. Evanston: Acta Publications, 1993.

Loeb, Paul Rogat. Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999.

Okholm, Dennis L., ed. The Gospel in Black and White: Theological Resources for Racial Reconciliation. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997.

Perkins, John, ed. Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It Right. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995.

HandMade in America Small Town Revitalization Program
Western North Carolina


Barker, Garry G. The Handcraft Revival in Southern Appalachia, 1930-1990. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1991.

Becker, Jane S. Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Gardner, John William. On Leadership. New York: Free Press, 1990.

Handmade in America. Small Voices, Big Songs: A Story of American Renewal. Asheville: Handmade in America, 1999.

Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose N. Manning, Jim Wayne Miller, eds. Appalachia Inside Out: A Sequel to Voices from the Hills. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Howell, Benita J., ed. Cultural Heritage Conservation in the American South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Whisnant, David E. All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Midwifery Practice and Doula Service, University Hospital and Medical Center
Stony Brook, New York


Balaskas, Janet. Active Birth: The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally, rev. ed. Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1992.

Davis, Elizabeth. Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1997.

Goer, Henci. A Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. New York: Perigee Books, 1999.

Klaus, Marshall H., John H. Kennell, and Phyllis H. Klaus. Mothering the Mother: How a Doula Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth. Reading: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1993.

Wertz, Richard W, and Dorothy C. Wertz. Lying-in: A History of Childbirth in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Simkin, Penny. The Birth Partner: Everything You Need to Know to Help a Woman Through Childbirth. Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1989.

Proyecto Azteca
San Juan, Texas

Belden, Joseph N., and Robert J. Wiener, eds. Housing in Rural America: Building Affordable and Inclusive Communities. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1999.

Davis, Marilyn P. Mexican Voices, American Dreams: An Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the United States. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990.

Hellman, Judith Adler. Mexican Lives. New York: The New Press, 1994.

Richardson, Chad. Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Rothenberg, Daniel. With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.

Spener, David, and Kathleen Staudt, eds. The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.

Ward, Peter. Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico: Urbanization by Stealth. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Southwest Youth Collaborative
Chicago, Illinois


Clear, Todd R., and David R. Karp. The Community Justice Ideal: Preventing Crime and Achieving Justice. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.

Jones, LeAlan, Lloyd Newman, and David Isay. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago. New York: Scribner, 1997.

Kay, Philip, Andrea Estepa, and Al Desetta, eds. Things Get Hectic: Teens Write about the Violence That Surrounds Them. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Leadbeater, Bonnie J. Ross, and Niobe Way. Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Leonard, Kimberly Kempf, Carl E. Pope, and William Feyerherm, eds. Minorities in Juvenile Justice. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1995.

McLaughlin, Milbrey W., Merita A. Irby, and Juliet Langman. Urban Sanctuaries: Neighborhood Organizations in the Lives and Futures of Inner-City Youth. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994.

Village of Arts and Humanities
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Adams, Carolyn, David Bartelt, David Elesh, Ira Goldstein, Nancy Kleniewski, and William Yancey. Philadelphia: Neighborhoods, Division, and Conflict in a Postindustrial City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991.

Heath, Shirley Brice, and Milbrey W. McLaughlin, eds. Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond Ethnicity and Gender. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.

Hynes, H. Patricia. A Patch of Eden: America's Inner-City Gardeners. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1996.

Rosler, Martha, et al. If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism. Edited by Brian Wallis. New York: New Press, 1999.

The Village of Arts and Humanities. Learning Through Creating. Philadelphia: The Village Press, 1998.

Yaak Valley Forest Community
Yaak Valley, Montana


Bass, Rick. The Book of Yaak. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

Cox, Thomas R., Robert S. Maxwell, Phillip Drennon Thomas, and Joseph J. Malone. This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Lee, Robert G. Broken Trust, Broken Land: Freeing Ourselves from the War over Environmentalism. Wilsonville: BookPartners, 1994.

MacCleery, Douglas W. American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery. Durham: Forest History Society, 1992.

Pilarski, Michael, ed. Restoration Forestry: An International Guide to Sustainable Forestry Practices. Durango: Kivaki Press, 1994.

Yaak Valley Forest Council. Archipelago: Notes from an Inland Island. Libby: Yaak Valley Forest Council, 1999. Distributed by the Yaak Valley Forest Council, 918 Idaho PMB #220, Libby, MT 59923.

Yaak Valley Freedom Preservation Committee. "Incorrect Historical and Biological Information in the Book of Yaak." Yaak Valley Freedom Preservation Committee, Troy. Photocopy. Distributed by Yaak Valley Freedom Preservation Committee, c/o Overdale Lodge Rd., Troy, MT 59935.


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