Abstract

Since many of us come from disenfranchised communities of color, we feel compelled to “look to the bottom,” to involve ourselves in the development of solutions to our people’s problems. A number of us feel that that we cannot afford to adopt the classic detached, ivory tower model of scholarship when so many are suffering, sometimes in our own extended families. We do not believe in praxis instead of theory but that both are essential to our people’s literal and figurative future.