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Trauma and Repair: Confronting segregation and violence in America
is an interview-based interdisciplinary exploration of complex
trauma in low-income communities and neighborhoods in Baltimore,
Maryland; Oakland, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Elaine,
Arkansas. Moving fluidly between the respondents' life narratives
and clinical and academic perspectives on trauma and inequality,
Stopford depicts multidimensional and intergenerational trauma,
including prolonged economic injustice and repeated exposure to
community violence. Written in an accessible and engaging style
that draws on insights from sociology, public health, history,
legal studies, and clinical psychoanalysis, this original study is
a vital addition to the literature on inequality and poverty in the
United States.
Trauma and Repair: Confronting segregation and violence in America
is an interview-based interdisciplinary exploration of complex
trauma in specific low-income communities and neighborhoods in
Baltimore, Oakland, New Orleans and Elaine (Arkansas). The author's
discussion and extensive analysis draws on insights from diverse
fields - sociology, public health, history, and legal studies, as
well as her own profession of clinical psychoanalysis. Moving
fluidly between respondents' narratives about their lives on one
hand and clinical and academic perspectives on trauma and
inequality on the other, a picture emerges of multidimensional and
intergenerational trauma with multiple sources, including prolonged
economic injustice and repeated exposure to community violence.
Eminent Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson writes that
Stopford's book provides the most compelling case for acknowledging
not only the cumulative economic, social and cultural effects of
living in segregated and impoverished neighborhoods, but also the
physical and psychological suffering caused by exposure to constant
and chronic dangers, including the damaging health consequences of
early childhood trauma that can span generations. Written in an
accessible and engaging style, with an emphasis on interviewees'
lived experience and insights, this original study promises to be a
vital addition to the literature on inequality and poverty in the
United States. Trauma and Repair will engage readers in diverse
academic disciplines including sociology, psychology, public
health, history, and legal studies. Readers in the wider public
seeking to better understand the complex toxic forces confronting
residents of distressed neighborhoods in American cities and towns
will also find this original study informative, accessible and
fascinating.
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