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The racial healing handbook : practical activities to help you challenge privilege, confront systemic racism & engage in collective healing / Anneliese A. Singh.

By: Singh, Anneliese A [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Social justice handbook series: Publisher: Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, Inc., [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1684032709 (paperback).Subject(s): Racism -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Race awareness -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Reconciliation -- Handbooks, manuals, etcGenre/Form: Handbooks and manuals. | Handbooks and manuals.DDC classification: 305.800973
Contents:
Introduction -- Know your racial identity -- Explore your internalized racism -- (Re)learn the history of racism -- Grieve and name racism -- Raise your race consciousness -- Catch yourself in the flow of racism -- Understanding racism in relationships -- Reclaim your whole racial self -- Be a racial ally -- Engage in collective racial healing -- Time to dream - what does a racially just world look like?
Summary: This handbook "offers powerful and practical tools to help you explore the history of racism, challenge stereotypes, and manage the stress and remorse that result from living in an unequal worlds. You'll understand your own racial identity, navigate daily and past experiences of racism, and examine ways racism affects all aspects of life-- from work to family to relationships. FInally, you'll discover how you can fight for racial justice, be an ally, and forge the building blocks needed to create a community of healing."--Cover.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal.

Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many ways, to heal from racism, you must re-educate yourself and unlearn the processes of racism. This book can help guide you.

The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. You'll also learn to develop a profound racial consciousness and conscientiousness, and heal from grief and trauma. Most importantly, you'll discover the building blocks to creating a community of healing in a world still filled with racial microaggressions and discrimination.

This book is not just about ending racial harm--it is about racial liberation. This journey is one that we must take together. It promises the possibility of moving through this pain and grief to experience the hope, resilience, and freedom that helps you not only self-actualize, but also makes the world a better place.

"A New Harbinger social justice handbook"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222).

Introduction -- Know your racial identity -- Explore your internalized racism -- (Re)learn the history of racism -- Grieve and name racism -- Raise your race consciousness -- Catch yourself in the flow of racism -- Understanding racism in relationships -- Reclaim your whole racial self -- Be a racial ally -- Engage in collective racial healing -- Time to dream - what does a racially just world look like?

This handbook "offers powerful and practical tools to help you explore the history of racism, challenge stereotypes, and manage the stress and remorse that result from living in an unequal worlds. You'll understand your own racial identity, navigate daily and past experiences of racism, and examine ways racism affects all aspects of life-- from work to family to relationships. FInally, you'll discover how you can fight for racial justice, be an ally, and forge the building blocks needed to create a community of healing."--Cover.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. vii)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Chapter 1 Know Your Racial Identity (p. 11)
  • Chapter 2 Explore Your Internalized Racism (p. 33)
  • Chapter 3 (Re)learn the History of Racism (p. 49)
  • Chapter 4 Grieve and Name Racism (p. 65)
  • Chapter 5 Raise Your Race Consciousness (p. 83)
  • Chapter 6 Catch Yourself in the Flow of Racism (p. 105)
  • Chapter 7 Understand Racism in Relationships (p. 129)
  • Chapter 8 Reclaim Your Whole Racial Self (p. 149)
  • Chapter 9 Be a Racial Ally (p. 169)
  • Chapter 10 Engage in Collective Racial Healing (p. 187)
  • Conclusion Time to Dream-What Does a Racially Just World Look Like? (p. 205)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 213)
  • Afterword (p. 215)
  • References (p. 219)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LPC is a professor and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the college of education at the University of Georgia. Singh is cofounder of the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition, where she works to reduce heterosexism, racism, and other forms of oppression in Georgia schools.