WHAT WE READ
Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh
“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.” - New Harbinger Publications
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
“The Body Keeps the Score is the inspiring story of how a group of therapists and scientists— together with their courageous and memorable patients—has struggled to integrate recent advances in brain science, attachment research, and body awareness into treatments that can free trauma survivors from the tyranny of the past.” - Bessel van der Kolk, MD.
Little Book of Racial Healing by Thomas Norman DeWolf and Jodie Geddes
“This Little Book describes the Coming to the Table Approach to racial healing; a continuously evolving set of purposeful theories, ideas, experiments, guidelines, and intentions, all dedicated to facilitating racial healing and transformation.” - Tom DeWolf
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
“In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.” - Central Recovery Press
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
“This New York Times Bestseller has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Louise’s key message in this powerful work is: “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” Louise explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness, and how you can change your thinking…and improve the quality of your life! Packed with powerful information.” - Hay House
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
“Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism--and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.” - Bookshop.org
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
“Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy?” - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Degruy Leary
“The book addresses the residual impacts of generations of slavery and opens up the discussion of how the black community can use the strengths we have gained in the past to heal in the present.” - Dr. Joy Degruy
How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
“This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice—and ideas for how each of us can contribute.” - Kenrya Rankin