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• The Body Keeps the Score

  Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943-

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  “Psychological trauma can befall anyone, not just soldiers, refugees, or victims of rape. . . . This important and helpful book makes sense of suffering and offers opportunity for healing.” (Booklist) Also available as an e-book and e-audiobook.

• The Inheritors

  Moving Forward From Generational Trauma

  Baack, Gita Arian,

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  Our family legacies, both positive and negative, are passed down from one generation to the next in ways that are not fully understood. This secondary form of trauma, which Dr. Gita Baack calls "Inherited Trauma," has not received adequate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Didn't Start With You

  How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

  Wolynn, Mark,

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  "Argues that the roots of such mental disorders as depression and phobias may lie within inherited traumatic experiences, offering a pragmatic guide to uncovering fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

  America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

  Leary, Joy DeGruy

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  What do repeated traumas, endured generation after generation by a people produce? What impact have these ordeals had on African Americans today? . . . Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Fatigue

  How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

  Winters, Mary-Frances,

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  Presents information about the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of African Americans and explains why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects. (NoveList) Also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Body Is Not An Apology

  the Power of Radical Self-love

  Taylor, Sonya Renee,

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  "The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How the Word Is Passed

  a Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

  Smith, Clint,

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  "Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  "A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 1619 Project

  a New Origin Story

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  "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  "From the National Book Award–winning author comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

  Saad, Layla F,

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  When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. Updated and expanded from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Racial Healing Handbook

  Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective Healing

  Singh, Anneliese A.,

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  The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. You’ll also learn to develop a profound…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stony the Road

  Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,

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  Historian Gates has long been fascinated with the idea of the "New Negro," and how African Americans fought back against white supremacy during the Redemption and Jim Crow periods. In this work . . . , the author asserts that this era is fundamental…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caste

  the Origins of Our Discontents

  Wilkerson, Isabel,

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  "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle

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  (L)egal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that “[w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as “a system of social…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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  Richard Rothstein has painstakingly documented how American cities, from San Francisco to Boston, became so racially divided. Rothstein describes how federal, state, and local governments systematically imposed residential segregation: with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sum of Us

  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

  McGhee, Heather C.,

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  A powerful new exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and its rising cost to all of us--including white people--from one of today's most insightful and influential thinkers. (NoveList) Also available as an e-book an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fire This Time

  a New Generation Speaks About Race

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  The National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones presents a continuation of James Baldwin's 1963 The Fire Next Time that examines race issues from the past half century through essays, poems and memoir pieces by some of her generation's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  In this extended open letter to his young son, Samori, Atlantic national correspondent and senior editor Coates reflects further on his unlikely road to manhood and escape from the maw of America's tradition—nay, heritage—of destroying the black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• SUBTLE ACTS OF EXCLUSION;HOW TO UNDERSTAND, IDENTIFY, AND STOP MICROAGGRESSIONS

  TIFFANY JANA; MICHAEL BARAN

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  Jana and Baran give simple and clear tools to identify and address such acts, offering scripts and action plans for everybody involved. Knowing how to have these conversations in an open-minded, honest way will help us build trust and create…Read moreRead more of this annotation