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With characteristic clarity, courage, and conviction, Lorgia Garcia Pena draws on her remarkable history as an engaged scholar and committed activist to demonstrate the necessity of living in community and accompanying others as keys to both personal liberation and social transformation. -George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness Unflinching, brilliant, and absolutely necessary. In these pages, Lorgia Garcia Pena shares her experiences-and others'-to reflect on what it means to be 'the stranger' in academia: that sole symbol for diversity that still remains an outsider. Unwavering in its clarity and compassion, this powerful book reminds us that true belonging comes from actively building communities unafraid to center care and rebellion. Everyone should read this. -Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize 'What does it mean to teach for freedom?' Dr. Garcia Pena asks and boldly beckons us toward its practice across the policed borders of discipline, nation, theoretical traditions, and entrenched racial categories. A capacious thinker, rigorous researcher, brilliant activist, and path-breaking scholar, Dr. Garcia Pena calls on us not simply, as she writes, to 'mind the historical gaps' for long-subjugated stories but alerts us to the ways these gaps have been historically mined in extractive ways in the service of colonial projects and neoliberal calls for diversity. Her astonishing work gathers us under its broad canopy to plot and persevere toward communal rebellion and renewal. -Deborah Paredez, Columbia University

With characteristic clarity, courage, and conviction, Lorgia Garcia-Pena draws on her remarkable history as an engaged scholar and committed activist to demonstrate the necessity of living in community and accompanying others as keys to both personal liberation and social transformation. --George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

A life-saving and life-affirming text, Community as Rebellion offers us the trenchant analysis and fearless strategy radical scholar-activists have long needed. But Lorgia Garcia Pena's intervention is especially valuable at this moment, as we collectively consider how our most important social institutions might be reimagined beyond the strongholds of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism more broadly. -Angela Y. Davis Community as Rebellion is a must read for anyone serious about confronting institutional racism, sexism, and elitism. Lorgia Garcia Pena, one of her generation's most brilliant scholar-activists, challenges us to confront academia as a 'colonial and colonizing' space as the first step toward resistance and transformation. Her own experiences undergird her analysis and serve as a powerful call to action. -Barbara Ransby, author, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Lorgia Garcia Pena is one of the few courageous and brilliant intellectuals grounded in rigorous and visionary grassroots education! This pedagogical guide for genuine freedom struggles is so badly needed in our neo-fascist times! -Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary Unflinching, brilliant, and absolutely necessary. In these pages, Lorgia Garcia Pena shares her experiences-and others'-to reflect on what it means to be 'the stranger' in academia: that sole symbol for diversity that still remains an outsider. Unwavering in its clarity and compassion, this powerful book reminds us that true belonging comes from actively building communities unafraid to center care and rebellion. Everyone should read this. -Maaza Mengiste, author, The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize 'What does it mean to teach for freedom?' Dr. Garcia Pena asks and boldly beckons us toward its practice across the policed borders of discipline, nation, theoretical traditions, and entrenched racial categories. A capacious thinker, rigorous researcher, brilliant activist, and path-breaking scholar, Dr. Garcia Pena calls on us not simply, as she writes, to 'mind the historical gaps' for long-subjugated stories but alerts us to the ways these gaps have been historically mined in extractive ways in the service of colonial projects and neoliberal calls for diversity. Her astonishing work gathers us under its broad canopy to plot and persevere toward communal rebellion and renewal. -Deborah Paredez, Columbia University With characteristic clarity, courage, and conviction, Lorgia Garcia Pena draws on her remarkable history as an engaged scholar and committed activist to demonstrate the necessity of living in community and accompanying others as keys to both personal liberation and social transformation. -George Lipsitz, author, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness Community as Rebellion is partly an incisive and deeply personal expose of the neoliberal university and its racializing and patriarchal practices of denigrating women of color scholars while extracting their intellectual, administrative, and emotional labor. But it is, above all, a mandate to transform higher education that begins with recognizing our mutual obligations to each other and to the world we study, extending 'community' beyond the ivory tower, and co-creating with our students new, autonomous intellectual spaces. Lorgia Garcia Pena wrote this book not from a dream or an abstract theory but from building rebel communities for over a decade. She knows that there can be no free education without freedom. -Robin D. G. Kelley, author, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

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Lorgia Garca Pea is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. Garca Pea is the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She studies global Blackness, colonialism, migration and diaspora with a special focus on Black Latinidad. Dr. Garca Pea is the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia and of Archives of Justice (Milan-Boston). Her book The Borders of Dominicanidad (Duke University Press 2016) won the 2017 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzalda Book Prize, the Isis Duarte Book Award in Haiti and Dominican Studies and the 2016 Latino/a Studies Book Award. She is the author of Translating Blackness (Duke University Press) and the co-editor of the Texas University Press Series Latinx: The Future is Now. She is a regular contributor to The Boycott Times, Asterix Journal and the North American Council on Latin America (NACLA).

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