Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience

"People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on our dignity. We have prayed about racism been in denial or acted out in anger but we have not known how to individually or collectively pursue healing from the racial trauma." As a child Sheila Wise Rowe was bused across town to a majority white school and she experienced the racist lie that one group is superior to all others. We experience ongoing racial trauma as this lie is perpetuated by the action or inaction of the government media viral videos churches and within families of origin. In contrast Scripture declares that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. Professional counselor Rowe exposes the symptoms of racial trauma to lead readers to a place of freedom from the past and new life for the future. In each chapter she includes an interview with a person of color to explore how we experience and resolve racial trauma. With Rowe as a reliable guide who has both been on the journey and shown others the way forward you will find a safe pathway to resilience.

Paperback: 192 pages

Publisher: IVP Books (January 7 2020)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0830845887

ISBN-13: 978-0830845880

Shipping Weight: 12 ounces