My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies / COPY 2

by Resmaa Menakem

Paperback, 2017

Status

Available

Call number

305.8 M38 2017 c.2

Call number

305.8 M38 2017 c.2

Description

Psychology. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide..

Publication

Central Recovery Press (2017), Edition: Illustrated, 300 pages

Original publication date

2017-09-12

Original language

English

Language

User reviews

LibraryThing member elenchus
If white supremacy is understood as cultural trauma, affecting all of us (white, black, blue bodies), we can each expect some form of a trauma response traceable to it. Part of mine manifests as resistance to reading this book: it is simply stated and organized, the chapters are short, I cannot be
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more persuaded of its worth and importance. Yet it took me weeks and months to work through it. Looking back about four-fifths through, I recognized it was work. And of course it was.

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The work didn't end on the last page. Second reading could focus on distilling the analytical framework and normative prescription, and fitting to NCP.
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LibraryThing member Katyefk
I was really impacted by all of the stories and exercises that are presented in this book. I have changed my language about "bodies" and am very aware of my personal reactions and interactions with others. I would highly recommend this book as a caring, impactful and profound contribution to
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radicalized trauma and how to mend it in ourselves and others.
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LibraryThing member Moshepit20
I'm not quite sure how to rate this book. It's a heavy one but I didn't exactly love the book. I do like that this book acknowledges that white people and police have trauma and are mostly acting from a traumatized reptilian brain.

ISBN

1942094477 / 9781942094470

Barcode

97819420944702
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