Healing movements: Chicanx-indigenous activism and criminal justice in California
"How women and men involved in a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counter the carceral state and build otherwise in a Chicanx community in California"--
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
New York University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
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| Summary: | "How women and men involved in a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counter the carceral state and build otherwise in a Chicanx community in California"-- How a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counters the carceral state in a Chicanx community in CaliforniaFor 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Zielgruppe: 5PB-US-H, Bezug zu Latino-Amerikanern |
| Physical Description: | viii, 200 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781479827060 9781479827077 |