Faith Made Flesh: The Black Child Legacy Campaign for Transformative Justice and Healthy Futures

Faith Made Flesh brings together experiences, insights, and stories to address societal and educational disadvantages of Black children in Sacramento, California, focusing on the Black Child Legacy Campaign's transformative alliances and radical actions. It provides an innovative model for other regions to cultivate thriving community-city-school partnerships that center the well-being of Black children and Black futures.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 222 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Faith Made Flesh is a groundbreaking book that brings together the experiences, insights, and stories of individuals actively working to address the societal and educational disadvantages faced by Black children in Sacramento, California. Edited by Lawrence Torry Winn, Vajra M. Watson, Maisha T. Winn, and Kindra F. Montgomery-Block, the book aims to provide viable solutions to racial injustice by centering the voices of organizers, policymakers, educators, scholars, and young people. The book focuses on the Black Child Legacy Campaign (BCLC), a ten-year community-driven initiative that seeks 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 innovative model to other regions aiming to cultivate thriving community-city-school partnerships that center the well-being of Black children and Black futures.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501772320