My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies / Resmaa Menakem.
2017
KF4757 .M463 2017 JOBS
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Author
Menakem, Resmaa, author.
Title
My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies / Resmaa Menakem.
Imprint
Las Vegas, NV : Central Recovery Press, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Description
xx, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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.
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.
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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Includes bibliographical references.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Menakem, Resmaa. My grandmother's hands. Las Vegas, NV : Central Recovery Press, [2017]
Online version: Menakem, Resmaa. My grandmother's hands
Online version: Menakem, Resmaa. My grandmother's hands
Call Number
KF4757 .M463 2017 JOBS
Language
English
ISBN
9781942094470 (paperback)
1942094477 (paperback)
9781942094609 (hardcover)
1942094604 (hardcover)
9781942094487 (ebook)
1942094485 (ebook)
1942094477 (paperback)
9781942094609 (hardcover)
1942094604 (hardcover)
9781942094487 (ebook)
1942094485 (ebook)
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