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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD? - AJ+ Opinion

2019

How is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome different from PTSD? Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation. How is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome different from PTSD? Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation.

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A Report from Occupied Territory

Negroes have always held, the lowest jobs, the most menial jobs, which are now being destroyed by automation. No remote provision has yet been made to absorb this labor surplus.

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James Baldwin
1966
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James Baldwin Insisted We Tell the Truth About This Country. The Truth Is, We’ve Been Here Before

In each generation we have to experience the haunting ritual of a Black family grieving in public over the loss of a loved one at the hands of the police.

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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020
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Dark Days

Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

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James Baldwin
2018
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen

This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell), and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985.

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James Baldwin
1995
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No Name in the Street

In this stunningly personal document, James Baldwin remembers in vivid details the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness and the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the...

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James Baldwin
2007
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What to Do When Racists Try to Hijack Your Religion

White supremacists are coopting Norse heathen symbols. Should the heathens ignore them? Protest them? Create a new theology?

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Sigal Samuel
2017
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Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative American Buddhism. With contributions by Acharya Gaylon Ferguson, Cheryl A.

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Pamela Ayo Yetunde (editor), Cheryl A. Giles (editor), Gaylon Ferguson (foreword)
2020
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How Racism Began as White-On-White Violence

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”?

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Resmaa Menakem
2018
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Healing Your Thousand-Year-Old Trauma

During the Middle Ages in Europe, torture, mutilation, and other forms of savagery particularly on women were seen as normal aspects of life. Public executions were literally a spectator sport.

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Resmaa Menakem
2018
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Healing Racialized Trauma Begins with Your Body

Resmaaa connects the healing of your body, mind, and soul with the healing of our country and our world.

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Resmaa Menakem
2020
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Intergenerational Trauma