Abstract
This chapter addresses working-class studies through the lens of activism and community colleges in the United States. The issue of activism is not often connected to community colleges but rather four-year colleges and universities, an oversight consistent with the many ways in which community colleges are often stigmatized as not ‘real’ colleges. This chapter proposes that rather than continue to overlook activism at community colleges, we should instead center the community college when considering activism and explore the relationship between academic confidence, belonging, and activism. The idea of activism confidence can then emerge. This chapter addresses the following: why the community college is such a critical site of potential activism for social change, obstacles to activism that do exist at community colleges, a strategy of focusing on the classroom as a site of activism, and a recommendation that community college faculty, in particular, are well positioned to engage in public scholarship as a form of activism.
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