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Book SynopsisFaith Made Flesh brings together the experience, insight, and stories of those actively addressing societal and educational disadvantages of Black children in Sacramento, California. Editors Lawrence Torry Winn, Vajra M. Watson, Maisha T. Winn, and Kindra F. Montgomery-Block seek to offer viable solutions to racial injustice by centering the voices of organizers, policymakers, educators, scholars, and young people alike.
Focused on the Black Child Legacy Campaign (BCLC), a ten-year community-driven initiative to respond to disproportionate health outcomes, the contributors analyze the impact of the BCLC''s successes, providing an empirically rich narrative of its transformative alliances and radical actions. Through timely and urgent case studies and personal reflections, Faith Made Flesh advances the need to address societal challenges through creative engagement with diverse institutional and individual stakeholders. The findings offer an innovat
Table of Contents
Opening. A Citywide Recentering of Black Life
1. The Roadmap: We Make the Path by Walking
Part 1: LEGACY
2. Transformative Justice Framework: Building Black Legacies
3. History Matters: Realities of Redlining in Sacramento
Part 2: LEARNING
4. Black Education Matters: A Legacy of Educating Black Children beyond the Walls of Public Schools
5. Poetry as Pedagogy: A Black Educator's Reflection
6. Black in School:: Youth Reflection
7. Doing the Real Work: Community Reflection
8. Honoring the Legacy: Advocacy through Art
Part 3: LEADERSHIP
9. Patterns of Possibility: Lessons Learned
10. Community-Based Leadership: License to Operateat the Intersection of Love and Humility
11. The Past Meets the Present: Inside the Build.Black.Coalition
Part 4: LIFE
12. Methodology Matters: The Power of Portraiture
13. People Power: Councilmember Phil Serna
14. A Unique Opportunity, a Unique Responsibility: President Chet Hewitt
15. Mothering for Transformation: Kindra Montgomery-Block
16. The President of Helping and Giving: Crystal Harding
17. Revolutionary Relations: Jackie Rose
Part 5: LESSONS
18. There's Still More to Do: Community Reflection
19. Wellness Works: Community Reflection
20. The Fire This Time: Youth Reflection
21. Transformative Justice Community: Insights and Implications
22. A Reopening: Futures Forward
