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Summary of My Grandmother’s Hands 

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“My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies” is a self-help book that focuses on the effects of racism on the body and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies. Resmaa Menakem examined racialized trauma in America, how that trauma gets perpetuated through White-body supremacy, and how we can heal from it. Resmaa Menakem is a therapist with more than ten years of experience specializing in body-centered psychotherapy, violence prevention, and trauma. He has appeared on Dr. Phil and the Oprah Winfrey Show as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem trained at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, and this book is a New York Times bestseller. “No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were White or the moment you found out you were Black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.” ~ Toni Morrison

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  • Summary of My Grandmother’s Hands
  • About the author
  • What is My Grandmother’s Hands about?
  • Who should read My Grandmother’s Hands
  • Topics in My Grandmother’s Hands
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White-body supremacy and the effect of racialized trauma on Whites, Blacks, and the police profession

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White-body supremacy involves seeing Whites as the norm or standard for humans and people of color as a deviation from that norm. White-body supremacy was embedded in American culture from time immemorial, creating a trauma of legacy and suffering for all those concerned. This racialized trauma appears in 3 different forms: in the bodies of White Americans, African Americans, and police officers. Each body has its unique trauma response and needs to heal.
If we are to upend the status quo of White-body supremacy, we must begin with our bodies.
This summary is about the human body. If you’re African American, you’ll explore the trauma that your body has internalized. You’ll see how multiple forces, genes, history, culture, and family have created a long bloodline of trauma in African Americans. If you’re White, this summary will offer you a wealth of practices for dealing with trauma in your own body and growing beyond it. A persistent condition of chronic stress also manifests in the bodies of many members of the law enforcement profession, regardless of their skin color. If you’re a policeman or policewoman, you’ve certainly either suffered or observed trauma. This summary offers you a vital path of healing as well.
History is not the past but the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. ~ James Baldwin
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Generational transfer of trauma through White-body supremacy can turn into a culture

White-body supremacy doesn’t live just in our brains, but also in our bodies. As a consequence, we will never outgrow it only through discussion, training, or anything else that’s mostly cognitive. Instead, we need to look into the body and the embodied trauma experience.
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The clash between Black immigrants and landowners paved the way for the emergence of racism

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Understanding the myths of Black and White bodies

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Working through your trauma and safeguarding your body

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Harmonizing your body with others as a strategy to healing from trauma

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Managing your White privileges and your role as a law enforcement agent

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Body-centered activism done with settled bodies promotes cultural healing

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Growing out of White-body supremacy and embracing healing

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