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What Stories About Racial Trauma Leave Out

By Joe Fassler — 2020

In Minor Feelings, her first book of nonfiction prose, Cathy Park Hong reflects on learning to write about race. Throughout, she describes herself as working against an unfortunate archetype: the narrative that presents racial trauma as a kind of catalyst for personal growth.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends?

Stacie Marshall, who inherited a Georgia farm, is trying on a small scale to address a generations-old wrong that still bedevils the nation.

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Kim Severson
2021
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The Author of 'White Fragility' Takes on 'Nice Racism'

"Nice Racism" is built around a startling claim: White progressives can cause the most daily harm to people of color.

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John Blake
2021
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism

The antidote to white fragility is on-going and life-long, and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

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Robin DiAngelo
2015
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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.

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Kendra Cherry
2021
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How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This Car Together?

The poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine says every conversation about race doesn’t need to be about racism. But she says all of us — and especially white people — need to find a way to talk about it, even when it gets uncomfortable.

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Krista Tippett
2019
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Coping with Racial Trauma

While individuals of all racial-ethnic minority groups are at risk of experiencing racial discrimination and racial trauma, Black Americans are especially at risk, as anti-Black racism is individual, systemic, and historical.

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University of Georgia Department of Psychology
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Why Anti-Racism Work Is Also Spiritual Work

Therefore, the fight against racism has to focus on emotional and spiritual work as much as does the external shifts.

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Jess Mally
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The Intersectionality Wars

When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.

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Jane Coaston
2019
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde Review–Prophetic and Necessary

The black lesbian feminist writer and poet, who died 25 years ago, is better known than ever, her words often quoted in books and on social media.

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RO Kwon
2017
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The Case for Reparations

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
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