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

Author

Resmaa Menakem

Call Number

• 305.8 M534 (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

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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.