JOHN BROWN CHILDS is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is author of two previous books, including Leadership, Conflict, and Cooperation in Afro-American Social Thought (Temple).

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In this original and collaborative creation, John Brown Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how does one build a movement that can account for race, class and gender, and yet still operate across all of these lines? How can communities sustain themselves in truly social ways? And perhaps most important, how can we take the importance of community into account without forgoing the important distinctions that we all ascribe to ourselves as individuals? Borrowing from the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois federation, Brown Childs offers a way of thinking about communities as coalitions, ones that account for differences in the very act of coming together. Using the Iroquois as an example of transcommunality in action, he also offers specific outcomes that many people desire - racial justice and peace are two examples - as points of focus around which many disparate groups may organize, without ever subsuming questions of identity as an expense of organizing. In addition to Brown Childs' own exegesis, twelve scholars and thinkers from all walks of life offer their own responses to his thinki

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In an age of fractured identities and a world that is moving toward a global community, this book offers a way of imagining the world where community and individual identity may not only coexist, but also depend upon the other to the benefit of both.

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First Words 1. Introduction 2. Red Clay, Blue Hills: In Honor of My Ancestors 3. Emplacements of Affiliation 4. Learning from the Haudenosaunee 5. Elements of Transcommunality 6. Roots of Cooperation Acknowledgments Notes References Commentaries: A Quipu String of Commentaries: Some Reflections John Brown Childs Transcommunality: Beyond Tolerance, for Understanding Guillermo Delgado-P. Places and Transcommunality: A Comment on John Brown Childs's Idea of the Transcommunal Arif Dirlik Language of Space: The Territorial Roots of the Indigenous Community in Relation to Transcommunality Stefano Varese Transcommunality in a Global World Renate Holub Transcommunality as a Foundation for Globalization from Below Jeremy Brecher On Transcommunality and Models of Community Hayden White Pragmatic Solidarity and Transcommunality Andrea Smith Inclusive Difference: Transcommunality and the Hope for a Just World David Welchman Gegeo Transcommunality: Politics, Culture, and Practice Herman Gray One Love: Transcommunality among the Hip Hop Generation Sofia Quintero Transcommunal Practice in Northern Ireland John D. Brewer Transcommunality as Spiritual Practice Bettina Aptheker About the Contributors Index