My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies / Resmaa Menakem.
"The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psycholog...
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| Language: | English |
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Las Vegas, NV :
Central Recovery Press,
2017.
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| Summary: | "The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans -- our police. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide."--Amazon.com. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 309 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781942094470 1942094477 9781942094609 1942094604 |