47 pages • 1 hour read
Resmaa MenakemMy Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
1.
What is the lizard brain? Discuss its role in perpetuating white-body supremacy.
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Address the myth of race. When and why was the concept of race invented?
3.
Black and white Americans suffer from intergenerational trauma. Discuss the roots of this trauma, taking into account US and European history. Why does Menakem not address African history in his discussion of Black historical trauma?
