Healing Movements: Chicanx-Indigenous Activism and Criminal Justice in California - Couverture souple

Raschig, Megan S.

 
9781479827077: Healing Movements: Chicanx-Indigenous Activism and Criminal Justice in California
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 147982707X ISBN 13 : 9781479827077
Editeur : New York University Press, 2024

Synopsis

How a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counters the carceral state in a Chicanx community in California

For many, gang involvement can be a guaranteed life sentence, a force which traps them in an inescapable cycle of violence even if it does not lead to actual prison time. Healing Movements explores the work of formerly gang-involved Chicanx men and women in California who draw on the social connections made during their gang-involved years to forge new pathways for cultural healing and countering the carceral system.

Known colloquially as the "movement of healing," this Chicanx-Indigenous abolitionist project based in Salinas, California, was spurred on by a series of four police homicides of Latino men in 2014. Organizing around such issues as police brutality and mass incarceration, these collectives--two of which are discussed in this book, one mixed-gender, and the other women-only--turned to their often obscured Mesoamerican ancestry to find new resources for building a different future for themselves and subsequent generations.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Salinas, Healing Movements reveals how these communities have taken shape in large part through a conscious effort to uplift Chicanx-Indigenous culture and ceremonial practices. By tapping into their Indigeneity, the members of these collectives access a wealth of new resources to shape their future, opening up novel ways to organize and build strong relational ties that are noteworthy to anyone invested in abolitionist work.

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À propos de l'auteur

Megan S. Raschig is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
147982707X
ISBN 13 
9781479827077
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781479827060: Healing Movements: Chicanx-Indigenous Activism and Criminal Justice in California

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ISBN 10 :  1479827061 ISBN 13 :  9781479827060
Editeur : New York University Press, 2024
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