ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

How Racism Began as White-On-White Violence

By Resmaa Menakem — 2018

Did over ten centuries of decontextualized medieval European brutality, which was inflicted on white bodies by other white bodies, begin to look like culture? Did this inter-generational trauma and its possible epigenetic effects end with European immigrants’ arrival in the “New World”?

Read on medium.com

FindCenter Post-Image

How Latin America’s Obsession With Whiteness Is Hurting Us

Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.

Article
Johanna Ferreira
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Be a Better BIPOC Ally

Sometimes, doing the work means looking at yourself and your actions first.

Article
Tonya Russell
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Structural Racism Is Taking a Toll on Children’s Mental Health

Racism and social inequality don’t just affect adults. Here's why they have a profound impact on the mental health of children of color.

Article
Kristen Rogers
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Invisibility Is the Modern Form of Racism Against Native Americans

“I’ve never seen Native people in media at all.”

Article
Rebecca Nagle
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Mental Health Effects of Racism on Indigenous Communities

Racism is increasingly recognized as a factor that plays a role in mental health as well as disparities in mental health care. This can be particularly true among many of the most marginalized groups, including Indigenous communities.

Article
Kendra Cherry
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Resmaa Menakem on Why Healing Racism Begins with the Body

Trauma therapist and author of My Grandmother's Hands talks honestly and directly about the historical and current traumatic impacts of racism in the U.S., and the necessity for us all to recognize this trauma, metabolize it, work through it, and grow up out of it.

Article
Resmaa Menakem
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to My White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Womxn

This past year I not only stood unapologetically in the full and complete truth of my identity but also voiced that truth, my truth, aloud to all those closest to me. Including a lot of White people.

Article
Rachel Ricketts
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

john a. powell: Opening to the Question of Belonging

“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial longings.

Article
Krista Tippett
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

“I’m Only Disabled When I Experience Barriers or Bias”: Shani Dhanda Is Here to Challenge Your Perceptions

Shani Dhanda is on a mission to make the world inclusive for disabled people. Here, she speaks to Amanda Randone about the importance of universal design and how the pandemic could prompt a paradigm shift in disabled people’s working lives.

Article
Amanda Randone
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

People of Color and Mental Health Care: The Double Bind

Mental health issues in people of color are often misunderstood.

Article
Monnica T. Williams
2021
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Racial Discrimination