My Grandmother's Hands Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Resmaa Menakem

eBook - 2017

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER"My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."&#8212 Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White FragilityIn 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 Americ...ans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans&#8212our police.My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the... more