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Book

The quaking of America : an embodied guide to navigating our nation's upheaval and racial reckoning

Call Number

  • 305.8 M534 (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Publication Information

Las Vegas, Nevada : Central Recovery Press, 2022.

Physical Description

xvi, 375 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm

Summary

"The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands surveys the deteriorating political climate and presents an urgent call for action to save ourselves and our country"--

"Through the coordinated repetition of lies, anti-democratic elements in American society are working to incite mass radicalization, widespread chaos, and a collective trauma response in tens of millions of American bodies. Currently, most of us are utterly unprepared for this potential mayhem. This book can help prepare us-- and possibly prevent further destruction. In The Quaking of America, therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem takes readers through somatic processes addressing the growing threat of white-supremacist political violence. This preparation focuses not on strategy or politics, but on practices that can help us."--

Contents

  • What is this book?
  • Why a war is being planned
  • What the war plan looks like
  • Bodies and logic
  • Your body is the key
  • Your body's six intelligences
  • The five targets of blame
  • Active, passive, and unwitting complicitors
  • Clean pain and dirty pain
  • Why the coming war will be racialized
  • What trauma is and isn't
  • The five trauma responses
  • You are already the enemy
  • The wisdom of your body
  • Your body broadcasts and receives
  • The essentials of white-body supremacy
  • What are reps?
  • Two types of reps
  • How can this book help prevent a civil war?
  • Racialized trauma
  • The five anchors
  • Plantation ethics
  • Primal reps
  • White bodies and the energies of race
  • Your soul nerve and soul muscle
  • Becoming a somatic abolitionist
  • Quaking
  • Wokeness, allyship, and complicity
  • Cultivating resource
  • No failure, only practice
  • Peril and possibility
  • Once it's clear we're at war
  • Moving your body into the street
  • White bodies and hand-wringing
  • When white bodies say, "tell me what to do"
  • Physically protecting yourself and your family
  • Expect situations, alliances, and relationships to shift
  • Religious groups will support and attack you
  • Listen to Black women
  • The legacy of white-on-white oppression
  • When white bodies deputize other white bodies
  • When white bodies turn on each other
  • Policing white rage: a life rep for white bodies
  • Living with uncertainty, ambiguity, and lost battles
  • Creating a living, embodied antiracist culture
  • Emergence
  • The end of the war
  • The new reconstruction
  • Y2K, COVID-19, and somatic abolitionism
  • Vital resources and next steps
  • Afterward: us
  • Deepening your experience of this book.

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