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Title You are your best thing : vulnerability, shame resilience, and the black experience / edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown.

Publication Info. [New York] : Penguin Random House, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  CDBK 152.44 YOU    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room  CD BOOK 152.44 YOU    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK 152.4 YOU    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 6 audio discs (6 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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CD audio
Note Compact discs.
Performer Read by the contributors, and Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin, JD Jackson, and L Morgan Lee ; introduction read by Tarana J. Burke and Brené Brown.
Summary Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss vulnerability and shame resilience.
Contents Between us: a reckoning with my mother / Jason Reynolds -- This joy I have / Austin Channing Brown -- Dirty business: the messy affair of rejecting shame / Tanya Denise Fields -- My head is a part of my body and other notes on crazy / Kiese Makeba Laymon -- The wisdom of process / Prentis Hemphill -- Love lifted me: subverting shame narratives and legitimizing vulnerability as a mechanism for healing women in the black church / Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts -- Never too much / Marc Lamont Hill -- We are human too: on blackness, vulnerability, disability, and the work ahead / Keah Brown -- What's in a name? / Luvvie Ajayi Jones -- The blues of vulnerability: love and healing black youth / Shawn A. Ginwright -- Filling every page with joy: rewriting trauma and shame / Kaia Naadira -- Honoring our stories, transforming our pain / Deran Young -- Running out of gas / Sonya Renee Taylor -- My journey: vulnerability, rage, and being black in the art world / by Irene Antonia Diane Reece -- Unlearning shame and remembering love / Yolo Akili Robinson -- Hurt people hurt people / Laverne Cox -- Black surrender within the ivory tower / Jessica J. Williams -- Steps to being whole, on your terms / Aiko D. Bethea -- To you: Vulnerable mother, a choreo-essay / Imani Perry -- Where the truth rests / Tarana Burke.
Subject Shame.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Vulnerability (Personality trait)
Black people -- Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays.
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Essays.
Added Author Burke, Tarana, editor, narrator.
Brown, Brené, editor, narrator.
Willis, Mirron, 1965- narrator.
Turpin, Bahni, narrator.
Jackson, JD, narrator.
Lee, L. Morgan, narrator.
ISBN 9780593451915
0593451910
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