Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All
Book Details
- Publisher : W.W.Norton
- Published : 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 336
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 97843
- ISBN 13 : 9781324053897
- ISBN 10 : 1324053895
Reviews and Endorsements
This book is a comprehensive guide to promoting a greater understanding of the complexities of race and our society’s endless struggles to come to terms with it. Ellis offers a wealth of helpful insights and suggestions for not only how we can talk more effectively about race, but how we can transform and transcend it as well. Transforming Race Conversations is a must-read for those with lingering questions about race and race relationships, those who struggle to talk about it, and those with a passionate commitment to changing the prevailing racial order and need guidance on how to do it. This book offers answers and should be required reading for all of us!
Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, author of Racial Trauma: Healing Invisible Wounds and editor of The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness
Eugene Ellis’s Transforming Race Conversations offers a profound perspective on dismantling racism. Confronting the inherent discomfort in these discussions, Ellis emphasizes finding one’s voice to challenge racial paradigms. Delving into embodied cognition and advocating for internal decolonization, Ellis guides readers through a transformative process. Grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and personal narratives, this book is a compelling call to engage in meaningful conversations, providing a roadmap for personal and societal change.
Linda Thai, LMSW, trauma therapist and educator
In this comprehensive text, Eugene Ellis describes a pathway to racial understanding, speaking to both the history of racism and the psychology of race relations, interwoven with a mindfulness-based, somatically-informed model for addressing the effects of this history on all of us. He leaves us with much to converse about!
Janina Fisher, PhD, author of Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma and Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors