Critical Service-Learning and the Black Freedom Movement

This chapter seeks to deepen understanding of critical service-learning from the perspective of the African American community's socioculturally indigenous knowledge and efforts to struggle against racialized social injustice. It will first explore critical service-learning through the sociocultural lens of particular efforts within the Black Freedom Movement to identify intersecting principles of practice - those places where the efforts of initiatives within the Black Freedom Movement coincide with components of the critical service-learning construct. Second, the chapter will focus on the relevance of critical service-learning to contemporary urban communities of color, specifically in terms of empowering educationally and civically alienated young people to effectively engage in the work necessary to transform their lives and their communities.