My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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Introduction

Part 1, Chapters 1-9

Part 2, Chapters 10-17

Part 3, Chapters 18-24

What is the lizard brain? Discuss its role in perpetuating white-body supremacy.

Address the myth of race. When and why was the concept of race invented?

Black and white Americans suffer from intergenerational trauma. Discuss the roots of this trauma, taking into account US and European history. Why does Menakem not address African history in his discussion of Black historical trauma?