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Then They Came for Mine - Healing from the Trauma of Racial Violence (Paperback)
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Then They Came for Mine - Healing from the Trauma of Racial Violence (Paperback)
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List price R504
Loot Price R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
You Save R88 (17%)
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Black Americans' resilience during centuries of racially-motivated
violence is beyond remarkable. But continuing to endure this harm
allows for generations of trauma to fester and grow. Healing has to
be the priority going forward. For decades, Tracey Michae'l
Lewis-Giggetts clung to her upbringing in the church, believing
that racial reconciliation would come through faith and discipline,
being respectable, and doing what's right. But when her cousin
became the victim of a white supremacist's hateful rampage, her
body and soul said, "no more." The trauma of America's racial
history, wreaking havoc on not only Black and Brown folk but white
people too, in its own way, will not be alleviated without the will
to face it head-on. We must name the dehumanization that plagues
us, practice truth-telling and self-care, and make space for our
vulnerability-to do the hard work of healing ourselves and our
communities. This book is written with that healing in mind. It
unpacks how American systems and institutions enable the kind of
violence we've seen connected to white supremacy and nationalism.
It examines the way media has created a desensitization to violence
against Black bodies. It outlines what it looks like for a person
who claims to follow Jesus to be anti-racist. But more than
anything, it offers a blueprint for healing and reconciliation that
includes the necessity of white people untangling from an ancestral
mandate of colonization and false notions of supremacy, and Black
and Brown people reckoning with the impact of trauma and feeling
free to grieve in whatever way grief shows up.
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