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Living while Black : using joy, beauty, and connection to heal racial trauma / Guilaine Kinouani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kinouani, Guilaine, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism against Black people.
- Racism--Psychological aspects.
- Racism.
- Black people--Psychology.
- Black people.
- Black people--Social conditions.
- Psychic trauma.
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Living While Black is a powerful expose of the impact of anti-black racism and a practical guide to overcome racial trauma"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Centering Blackness
- Blackness as a Black Quest
- "Black" versus "black"
- ch. 1 Being Black
- Discovering Anti-Blackness
- Schooling While Black
- White Women and Liberal Racism
- On Writing Myself In
- The Roots of Our Resistance
- "I Can't Breathe!"
- Connecting as an Act of Love
- Summary
- Race Reflections
- Action Point: Get a Reflective Journal
- ch. 2 Black Minds
- Black Minds, White Institutions
- Case study: Mike
- Case study: Rocky
- Psychotherapy and Racism
- Defining Racial Trauma
- Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury
- Racial Trauma: Signs and Manifestations
- Intergenerational Wounds: The Baggage Our Parents Left Us
- Trauma and the Brain
- Healing Trauma
- Action Point: Practice Gratitude
- ch. 3 Black Shame
- Intersectionality and Trauma
- Case study: Fiona
- Understanding Intersectionality
- More on Shame
- The Impact of Injustice
- What We Call Home
- Case study: Eileen
- Denial, Shame, and Injustice
- Shaky Homes, Shaky Attachments
- Windrush and the Hostile Environment
- Action Point: Strengthen Homeness
- ch. 4 Black Bodies
- Black Bodies, White Fantasies
- The White Gaze
- Colonialism: The Ongoing Weight of the Past
- The Black Body and Boundaries
- Case study: Julie
- Scapegoats: The Consequence of Naming the Problem
- Internalizing Projections
- Trauma and the Body
- Mistrust and Neglect
- Action Point: Celebrate Your Body
- ch. 5 Raising Black Children
- Raising Black Children
- School Violence
- Absent Dads, Bossy Moms
- Talking to Black Children About Racism
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Case study: The school that tried to end racism
- Parent-Child Conflicts
- Attachment and Historical Bonds
- Internalized Racism
- Parental Trauma
- Protecting Black Children
- Language and Self-Care
- Talking to Black Children about Racism
- Action Point: Strengthen Your Bonds
- ch. 6 Working While Black
- Case study: Sara
- The Black Body at Work
- Case study: Black hair
- Being "the Only One"
- The Impact of Stereotypes
- Imposter Syndrome
- Excellence, Exhaustion, and Respectability
- Action Point: Strategize
- ch. 7 Black Love
- The Context of Love
- Interracial Love
- Misogynoir: When Racism Is Gendered or Sexism Is Racialized
- Case study: Alicia
- Love at the Intersections
- Action Point: Make a Love Pledge
- ch. 8 Black Resistance
- The Pathologization of Black Resistance
- Forms of Resistance
- Case study: Music as resistance
- Black Joy
- Triple Consciousness
- Learning Your Power
- Self-Compassion
- Action Point: Chart Your Resistance History
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- -THRIVING WHILE BLACK
- Your Radical Self-Care Plan
- Appendix: Psychological Tools
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807054581
- 0807054585
- OCLC:
- 1256627824
- Publisher Number:
- 99989695176
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