My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Project LEARN Category
L- Listen
E - Educate
A - Acknowledge
R - Respond
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
Activism
Racism
Book Details
Author: Resmaa Menakem
Publication Year: 2017
Pages: 300 pages
Book Synopsis
In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
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. Menakem 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.