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Menakem, Resmaa, author.

My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies / Resmaa Menakem.

Las Vegas, NV : Central Recovery Press, [2017]

xx, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

The first self-help book to examine white-body supremacy 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. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but also about the body. Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide and takes readers through a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods. Book jacket.

African Americans -- Social conditions.

Whites -- Race identity -- United States.

United States -- Race relations.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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9781942094470 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1942094477 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9781942094609 (hardcover)

1942094604 (hardcover)

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