Megan Raschig

MEGAN S. RASCHIG, California State University, Sacramento, California, received a grant in October 2018 to aid research on ”Healing After Police Homicides: World-Making, Repair, and Ethnographic Involvement Today.’ In Salinas, California, a community-led project of Chicanx-Indigenous cultural healing has made significant inroads against carceral institutions, racialized criminalization, and police brutality. This project tracked the impact of cultural healing projects five years after a period of police homicides of Latino men. As cultural healing took root in the city, many different impacts could be identified in the lives of locals ‘ some progressive and anti-carceral, others more disturbingly seeming to reinforce existing forms of racial and gendered discrimination and violence. This ethnographic research was adapted over these shifting conditions and the COVID-19 global pandemic with productive and illuminating results.