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Resmaa Menakem (born Chester Mason, Jr.)[1] is an American author and psychotherapist specialising in the effects of trauma on the human body and the relationship between trauma, white body supremacy, and racism in America.[2][3][4][5][1]
He is the author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, published in September 2017,[6][7] which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list in May 2021[6] and The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning, published in 2022.[3] He is also the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute.[8]
- ^ a b My Grandmother's Hands, p. 256, n. 92
- ^ "Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris – Why We're All Suffering from Racial Trauma (Even White People) -- and How to Handle It | Resmaa Menakem – 1:18:45". radiopublic.com. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ a b "Resmaa Menakem on Why Healing Racism Begins With the Body". Compassion Center, University of Arizona. 2020-04-05. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ Sewell, CheyOnna. "Artist Resmaa Menakem launches new book, gallery exhibit and album to inspire action on racial justice". Twin Cities Daily Planet. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ "'Soul Medic:' From the battlefield to Minnesota, a therapist continues to listen". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ a b My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. 2017-09-19. ISBN 978-1-942094-47-0.
- ^ "My Grandmother's Hands". Psychology Today. Sep 21, 2017. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ "Cultural Somatics Institute".