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Black Well-Being & generational healingbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Black Well-Being and generational healing.

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Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration

Nina Simone’s popular anthem from the civil rights movement speaks to both the celebrations and trials of the Black experience. Young, Gifted, and Black gives voice to the real-life stories of Black millennials and younger adults.

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Afrikan Wisdom: New Voices Talk Black Liberation, Buddhism, and Beyond

Afrikan Wisdom represents an intersectional, cross-pollinated exploration of Black life--past, present, and future.

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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000

Clifton’s poems owe a great deal to oral tradition. Her work is wonderfully musical and benefits greatly from being read aloud: “It is hard to remain human on a day/ when birds perch weeping/ in the trees and the squirrel eyes/ do not look away but the dog ones do/ in pity.

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Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out

“Racism is a heart disease,” writes Ruth King, “and it’s curable.

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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.

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

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

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