| Description |
xvi, 375 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-361). |
| 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. |
| 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 2020-
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Political participation -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
Since 2000
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Menakem, Resmaa. Quaking of America Las Vegas, Nevada : Central Recovery Press, [2021] 9781949481679 (DLC) 2021052547 |
| ISBN |
9781949481747 (paperback) |
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1949481743 (paperback) |
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9781949481662 (hardback) |
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1949481662 (hardback) |
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