Description: Cultura y Corazón is a cultural approach to research that requires a long-term commitment to community-based and engaged research methodologies. This book presents case studies in the fields of education and health that recognize and integrate communities' values, culture, and funds of knowledge in the research process.
Review Quotes: "This book is a significant and unique contribution to social science research on Latinx populations. Scholarship in methodological approaches to community engagement tends not to engage with intangibles in the research process like pouring one's 'corazón' into the community that one is working with and getting to know the culture(s) in a way that fosters trust and elevates the voices of community members. This makes this book very unique in its willingness to 'go there, ' to speak of those things that truly create partnerships for the betterment of the lives of marginalized people, empowering them to implement their strengths and to take charge of their healing and growth."--Rebecca Martinez, University of Missouri
"Cultura y Corazón is a book we have all been waiting for. Deliberate in its descriptions of how to do ethical community engaged participatory research, the authors provide an excellent model for anyone serious about changing the way we work WITH communities of color. This is mandatory reading for researchers who are invested in providing a symbiotic relationship with communities of color and who no longer abide by helicopter culture-vulture approaches in research relationships."--Sujey Vega, author of Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest