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My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies / Resmaa Menakem.

Menakem, Resmaa, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781942094470
  • ISBN: 1942094477
  • ISBN: 9781942094609
  • ISBN: 1942094604
  • Physical Description: xx, 309 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Las Vegas, NV : Central Recovery Press, 2017.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Do not cross this line -- Watch your body -- Acknowledging our ancestors -- Our bodies, our country -- Unarmed and dismembered . Your body and blood ; Black, white, blue, and you ; Body to body, generation to generation ; European trauma and the invention of whiteness ; Assaulting the black heart ; Violating the black body ; The false fragility of the white body ; White-body supremacy and the police body ; Changing the world begins with your body -- Remembering ourselves. Your soul nerve ; Settling and safeguarding your body ; The wisdom of clean pain ; Reaching out to other bodies ; Harmonizing with other bodies ; Mending the black heart and body ; Mending the white heart and body ; Mending the police heart and body -- Mending our collective body. Body-centered activism ; Creating culture ; Cultural healing for African Americans ; Whiteness without supremacy ; Reshaping police culture ; Healing is in our hands ; The reckoning -- Afterword -- Five opportunities of healing and making room for growth.
Subject: African Americans > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
Whites > Race identity > United States.
Whites > Race identity > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.

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  • 9 of 11 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 305.896 MENAKEM (Text) 50686015647030 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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Cambria County Library 305.896 M534m (Text) 85131001754291 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 305.896 Menakem Psychology (Text) 39427103636973 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Parkland Community Library 305.896 MEN (Text) 34422007047604 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library 305.896 M521 (Text)
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30003009112317 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main 305.896073 Men (Text) 33223008579848 Non-fiction Checked Out 05/08/2024
Bethlehem Fountain Hill Satellite 305.896 (Text) 33062009423188 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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