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

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Menakem, Resmaa. Las Vegas: Central Recovery Press , 2017.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 MEN 2017
Availability
1 copy, 1 available
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…
Author
Menakem, Resmaa
Place of Publication
Las Vegas
Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Publication Date
2017
Physical Description
310pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Abstract
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.
My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy?how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system.
Offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.
ISBN
9781-942094-470
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 MEN 2017

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On Being Included:: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

https://cwslc.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124060
Ahmed, Sara. London: Duke University Press , 2012.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 AHM 2012
Availability
2 copies, 2 available
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkab…
Author
Ahmed, Sara
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Date
2012
Physical Description
243pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Abstract
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them.
ISBN
9780-8223-52365
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 AHM 2012

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