Communities of color have seen multiple police killings of African American boys and men and girls and women either directly or vicariously through media accounts. Black, Indigenous, and people of color have been impacted directly or vicariously through media accounts by the criminalization of immigration, and increases in deportations and detention
This manuscript is part of the Boston College Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture Racial Trauma Toolkit: "In this era of having witnessed multiple police killings of African American boys and men and girls and women either directly or vicariously through media accounts, communities of Color may experience post trauma symptoms. The ISPRC Alumni Board has released a toolkit for managing symptoms at #racialtraumaisreal which is available to download."
Since the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, White reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow. Then there was the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House. Carol carefully links these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition. She pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, and renders visible the long lineage of White rage, adding an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.
In this long-form comic, cartoonist, writer, and educator Whit Taylor examines maternal health and the concept of "weathering" - the term used to describe how social disadvantages - like sexism, racism, and classism - erode women's health over time and contribute to a Black maternal health disparity wherein Black women are three to four times more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women.