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Academic research across disciplines often treats communities as subjects rather than sources of knowledge. Jennifer Brier and Memoona Hasnain edit a collection that envisions a twenty-first century Chicago School grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration, reciprocity, and community-driven change.

Scholars, students, staff, healthcare professionals, and community partners draw on real-world examples to examine how the University of Illinois Chicago is pivoting to fulfill its public mission by focusing on social justice, health equity, and community collaboration. The essayists address issues ranging from historical inequities and curriculum reform to urban planning and the social determinants of health. As they show, universities and the wider public can team up to address structural racism, health disparities, and social inequities while fulfilling a vision of higher education that centers human dignity, shared knowledge, and collective action to build healthier and more just communities.

Multifaceted and innovative, A Chicago School for the 21st Century provides a blueprint for reshaping the university’s role in finding community-informed solutions to issues.

Contributors: Shauntice Allen, Ronahy Alzagha, Zachary Blair, Eric Sergio Boria, Dolores Castaneda, Yvette Castañeda, Stacey Chamberlain, Noel Chávez, Melissa Chrusfield, Brandon Collofello, Ryan Cooper, Lloyd Degrane, Lucero Diaz, Mayra Diaz, Ronisha Edwards-Elliott, Kamal Eldeirawi, Wesley Epplin, Jennifer K. Felner, Tiffany N. Ford, Linda Forst, Ana Genkova, Sylvia Gonzalez, Geraldine Gorman, Valerie Gruss, Jane Gubser, Anna Romina Guevarra, Memoona Hasnain, Jeni Hebert-Beirne, Sarah Gabriella Hernandez, Adlaide Holloway, Lydia Hou, Genevieve James, Ellen Kang, Noureen Kapadia, Justin Keller, Joan Kennelly, Ghulam Karim Khan, Naomi LeSure, Sarah Love, Jocelyn Mallard, Glenn Martínez, Dean Massey, Vinay Mikkilineni, Steve Hosik Moon, Pilar Ortega, Alex Ourth, Eunsong Park, Gayatri Reddy, Angela Rivers, Cindy San Miguel, Zoie Sheets, Joshua Smith, Melissa Socarras, Glenna K. Sullivan, Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Stella Udoetuk, Micah Varnado, Maria D. Velasquez, Amanda Weiler, Anna Yankelev, Moira Zellner, and the members of the Little Village Participatory Community Health Assessment and the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project

Academic research across disciplines often treats communities as subjects rather than sources of knowledge. Jennifer Brier and Memoona Hasnain edit a collection that envisions a twenty-first century Chicago School grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration, reciprocity, and community-driven change.

Scholars, students, staff, healthcare professionals, and community partners draw on real-world examples to examine how the University of Illinois Chicago is pivoting to fulfill its public mission by focusing on social justice, health equity, and community collaboration. The essayists address issues ranging from historical inequities and curriculum reform to urban planning and the social determinants of health. As they show, universities and the wider public can team up to address structural racism, health disparities, and social inequities while fulfilling a vision of higher education that centers human dignity, shared knowledge, and collective action to build healthier and more just communities.

Multifaceted and innovative, A Chicago School for the 21st Century provides a blueprint for reshaping the university’s role in finding community-informed solutions to issues.

Contributors: Shauntice Allen, Ronahy Alzagha, Zachary Blair, Eric Sergio Boria, Dolores Castaneda, Yvette Castañeda, Stacey Chamberlain, Noel Chávez, Melissa Chrusfield, Brandon Collofello, Ryan Cooper, Lloyd Degrane, Lucero Diaz, Mayra Diaz, Ronisha Edwards-Elliott, Kamal Eldeirawi, Wesley Epplin, Jennifer K. Felner, Tiffany N. Ford, Linda Forst, Ana Genkova, Sylvia Gonzalez, Geraldine Gorman, Valerie Gruss, Jane Gubser, Anna Romina Guevarra, Memoona Hasnain, Jeni Hebert-Beirne, Sarah Gabriella Hernandez, Adlaide Holloway, Lydia Hou, Genevieve James, Ellen Kang, Noureen Kapadia, Justin Keller, Joan Kennelly, Ghulam Karim Khan, Naomi LeSure, Sarah Love, Jocelyn Mallard, Glenn Martínez, Dean Massey, Vinay Mikkilineni, Steve Hosik Moon, Pilar Ortega, Alex Ourth, Eunsong Park, Gayatri Reddy, Angela Rivers, Cindy San Miguel, Zoie Sheets, Joshua Smith, Melissa Socarras, Glenna K. Sullivan, Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Stella Udoetuk, Micah Varnado, Maria D. Velasquez, Amanda Weiler, Anna Yankelev, Moira Zellner, and the members of the Little Village Participatory Community Health Assessment and the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project

Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect, overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert team of editors curates thought-provoking articles that explore how to view the American past through the lens of race and sexuality studies. Chapters range from the prerevolutionary era to today to grapple with an array of captivating issues: how descriptions of bodies shaped colonial Americans' understandings of race and sex; same-sex sexual desire and violence within slavery; whiteness in gay and lesbian history; college women's agitation against heterosexual norms in the 1940s and 1950s; the ways society used sexualized bodies to sculpt ideas of race and racial beauty; how Mexican silent film icon Ramon Navarro masked his homosexuality with his racial identity; and sexual representation in mid-twentieth-century black print pop culture. The result is both an enlightening foray into ignored areas and an elucidation of new perspectives that challenge us to reevaluate what we "know" of our own history. Contributors: Sharon Block, Susan K. Cahn, Stephanie M. H. Camp, J. B. Carter, Ernesto Chávez, Brian Connolly, Jim Downs, Marisa J. Fuentes, Leisa D. Meyer, Wanda S. Pillow, Marc Stein, and Deborah Gray White.