The quaking of America : an embodied guide to navigating our nation's upheaval and racial reckoning / Resmaa Menakem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menakem, Resmaa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--United States--History--21st century.

Political participation.

United States--Social conditions--2020-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Place of Publication:

2022.

Las Vegas, Nevada : Central Recovery Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands surveys the deteriorating political climate and presents an urgent call for action to save ourselves and our country"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

1. What Is This Book?

2. Why a War Is Being Planned

3. What the War Plan Looks Like

4. Bodies and Logic

5. Your Body Is the Key

6. Your Body's Six Intelligences

7. The Five Targets of Blame

8. Active, Passive, and Unwitting Complicitors

9. Clean Pain and Dirty Pain

10. Why the Coming War Will Be Racialized

11. What Trauma Is and Isn't

12. The Five Trauma Responses

13. You Are Already the Enemy

14. The Wisdom of Your Body

15. Your Body Broadcasts and Receives

16. The Essentials of White-Body Supremacy

17. What Are Reps?

18. Two Types of Reps

19. How Can This Book Help Prevent a Civil War?

20. Racialized Trauma

21. The Five Anchors

22. Plantation Ethics

23. Primal Reps

24. White Bodies and the Energies of Race

25. Your Soul Nerve and Soul Muscle

26. Becoming a Somatic Abolitionist

27. Quaking

28. Wokeness, Allyship, and Complicity

29. Cultivating Resource

30. No Failure, Only Practice

31. Peril and Possibility

32. Once It's Clear We're at War

33. Moving Your Body into the Street

34. White Bodies and Hand-Wringing

35. When White Bodies Say, "Tell Me What to Do"

36. Physically Protecting Yourself and Your Family

37. Expect Situations, Alliances, and Relationships to Shift

38. Religious Groups Will Support and Attack You

39. Listen to Black Women

40. The Legacy of White-on-White Oppression

41. When White Bodies Deputize Other White Bodies

42. When White Bodies Turn on Each Other

43. Policing White Rage: A Life Rep for White Bodies

44. Living with Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Lost Battles

45. Creating a Living, Embodied Antiracist Culture

46. Emergence

47. The End of the War

48. The New Reconstruction

49. Y2K, COVID-19, and Somatic Abolitionism.

50. Vital Resources and Next Steps

Afterword: Us

Deepening Your Experience of This Book

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781949481679

1949481670

OCLC:

1309035373