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Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All (First Edition)
Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All (First Edition) | Eugene Ellis
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A guide to supporting our emergence from the tight grip of race discomfort. If we are to address the injustice of racism, we need to have the race conversation. All too often, however, attempts at this conversation are met with silence, denial, anger, or hate. This is largely because the construct of race resides not only in our minds, but principally in the body. In order to have productive conversations about race and racism, a paradigm shift is neededone which will empower us to remain present and embodied, rather than constricted with fear, regardless of our racial identities. Here, psychotherapist Eugene Ellis explores what is needed for this bodily shift to occur as he unpacks the visceral experience of the race conversation. He offers a trauma-informed, neurophysiological approach that emphasizes resourcing, body awareness, mindfulness, and healing. The Race Conversation is essential reading for therapy practitioners as well as anyone looking to engage more effectively in the ongoing dialogue around race.
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“1865: The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution is made, abolishing slavery throughout the country. Four states reject ratification of the 13th Amendment at the time. (New Jersey ratified in 1866; Delaware ratified in 1901; Kentucky ratified in 1976; and Mississippi lawmakers finally ratified in 1995.)“

1866? 😐 Tardy, but ok, New Jersey;
1901? 🧐 Really, Delaware!;
1976? 😯 Shocking, Kentucky!!;
1995?!!! 😳🤯😰😱 Fucking hell, Mississippi!!!

Anna40 The Wright Museum in Detroit has lifelike exhibits among them slave ship living quarters and a slave bound like cattle waiting to be sold at an auction. After 10 years those images still haunt me and they were only replicas. Impossible to understand how anyone could bring so much suffering to another human being. I can‘t believe those dates! It makes me feel ashamed to be a human being. 4mo
Anna40 Fucking hell sums it up perfectly 😢 4mo
Bookwomble @Anna40 Yeah, thanks to Mississippi legislators, chattel slavery was technically not illegal throughout the USA until the late 20th century! The mind boggles and the heart weeps ❣️ There is a Museum of Slavery in Liverpool which I've not felt brave enough to visit yet, but it's my intention to do so before the year's out. 4mo
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Anna40 The Wright is exceptional because of how much they cover of African American history. There‘s music & film &the 50s, 60s with Dr King and Malcolm X too. So it‘s also a museum of resilience celebrating these exceptional people,but the suffering and injustice are hard to stomach. Some places & exhibitions I can‘t go to because they are too much. This might sound stupid but be careful when you go. It can break your heart 4mo
Suet624 I'll never understand. 4mo
Bookwomble @Suet624 On the one hand it's baffling, on the other, Ellis is doing a great job of summarising why and how the modern concepts of human blackness and whiteness emerged from capitalism to produce racism. While the subject is heavy, Ellis's writing is clear and very easy to read, without being light or superficial. 4mo
Bookwomble @Anna40 It doesn't sound at all stupid to me, as it's why I've put off going to the Liverpool museum for so long. However, it feels necessary. 4mo
quietlycuriouskate I'm speechless in response to those dates 😶 4mo
Bookwomble @quietlycuriouskate I was initially astounded, and then thought, "Well, that tracks!" It's still very sad. 4mo
The_Book_Ninja Oops! Silly us…we forgot to ratify. 4mo
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"We all have a sense of the word "perception", where we take on board what is happening around us in a conscious way that we can later recall. Neuroception is similar to this but without awareness and without the ability to recall what happened. When two people are together in a conversation, there are two nervous systems with their own independent ebbs and flows."

Bookwomble I'm enjoying Ellis's links to the polyvagal theory of safety-seeking behaviours and trauma-informed concepts in encounters we have with others where evaluation, positive and negative, is happening. This is a much smoother read than I'd anticipated, neither too superficial and generalised nor too academic and recondite. 4mo
Suet624 Fascinating stuff. 4mo
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Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All | Eugene Ellis
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This will be a challenging read, written by the founder of BAATN (Black, African & Asian Therapy Network), and a challenge it's useful to have.
It's a trauma-informed view of the personal & social effects of racism, how that's held in the body, & how it influences discourse on issues of race & colonialism. It's certainly got a psychotherapeutic approach, but I think it's written with a general audience in mind - I'll find out as I read, I guess.

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Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All (First Edition) | Eugene Ellis
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Last bit of #BookHaul , actually being a magazine and a book, the former an issue of the Ultimate Genre Guide, focusing on Glam Rock, featuring cover star Brian Eno in a 73-74 incarnation judging by his look 🤩 'Natch, David and Marc are also featured, along with the usual Glam suspects.
I attended a seminar by Eugene Ellis, author of Transforming Race Conversations, which naturally I've bought a copy of, and might even read!

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Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All (First Edition) | Eugene Ellis
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Just finished an online conference day on themes related to this book, the keynote presentation being from author Eugene Ellis. Naturally, I've ordered the book, due for publication end July 2024.
All the contributors and participants brought themselves and their experiences to the workshops, which made it really personal and emotional rather than dry and academic. Feeling 😌
💖✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊💖

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