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

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

Raschig, Megan S.

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndigenous StudiesLatino Studies

ISBN10: 1479827061
ISBN13: 9781479827060
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jun 4 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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