Publications

  • Toolkit: Agreement for a Just Partnership with Indigenous Culture-Bearers

    By Anuj Vaidya

    April 29, 2026

    Imagining America is pleased to launch a toolkit in collaboration with IA regional partner YoloSol Collective. This Agreement for a Just Collaboration with Bearers of Knowledge and Tradition is intended to build trust and address sensitive issues upfront, when working with cultural knowledge. It is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) created by members of YoloSol with Wintun/Maidu/Hupa/Yurok culture-bearer Diana Almendariz.

  • Democratically Engaged Assessment: Reimagining the Purposes and Practices of Assessment in Community Engagement

    By Imagining America

    November 13, 2024

    The 2018 white paper by the APPS Research Group offers in-depth exploration of the framework, thinking, and “found pilots” to support the model of Democratically Engaqed Assessment (DEA).

  • Equitable Food Futures: Activating Community Memory, Story, and Imagination in Rural Mississippi

    By Imagining America

    July 11, 2024

    by Carlton Turner, Mina Para Matlon, Erica Kohl-Arenas, and Jean Greene “…Our work is comprehensive community cultural transformation. That is, the social and…

  • New Public Issue: Digital Engagements; Or, the Virtual Gets Real

    By Imagining America

    January 22, 2018

    January 22, 2018 PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America is pleased to announce the publication of its latest issue: Digital Engagements; Or, the…

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