RabachK on Hope and Healing
In "Hope and Healing in Urban Education," Ginwright draws on several ethnographic case studies from urban settings around the United States to argue for a new approach to healing justice movements in community organizations, neighborhood groups, and schools. Situated in the post-recession years, many of the case studies in this book are saturated with an increased level of hopelessness due to factors such as crime, poverty, trauma, and compounded societal oppression. Healing becomes the central frame for the text: How is the practice of healing a community political?