Then they came for mine healing from the trauma of racial violence
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 u...
| Main Author: | Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey M. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Louisville, Kentucky :
Westminster John Knox Press,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the personal is political
- Why black trauma matters
- It's all intersectional
- Justified by law
- Silence is violence
- "What about Chicage?"
- Fading empathy
- The real causes of white violence
- Oh, to be seen in the fullness of our humanity
- A new narrative.