The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh

Author:Anneliese A. Singh
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2019-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

By taking the steps above, you learn to recognize more subtle forms of racism, like whose ideas are valued in a meeting and whose are not. You start to realize that many historical landmarks and buildings are named for White people, and rarely for people of color. You notice that you don’t see overt racism often, but that the majority of physicians, lawyers, and educators you know are White. And you learn in each of these situations to connect your realizations to some type of action—from educating yourself and others to advocacy and interruption. This continual work is exhausting. If you don’t take care of yourself as you do it—stepping back from the flow of your antiracist work from time to time for sleep, water, a healthy meal, friend time, alone time, vacation—it will be difficult to sustain your consciousness-raising efforts. I’ll refer back to Marlon James (2016) and say that this does not mean reverting to being a nonracist and doing nothing. Now that you’ve seen what the six Rs would look like for White and people of color antiracists, I would add a seventh “R” to Okun’s list: “(Rest)ore.” (Rest)ore means that you understand that being an antiracist requires sustainability, so you find ways to rest when you need to, restore your energy, and nourish yourself in reflection before diving into the work again. See the next Racial Healing Practice to explore where you are in your own antiracist development.

Racial Healing Practice

Becoming an Antiracist

Explore how Okun’s six components, plus the seventh step I added—(rest)ore—might fit together to help you develop a more realized antiracist identity. Write about where you think you are for each component—what your strengths might be and where you might need to grow.

Read and educate yourself on the effects, impacts, and other structures of racism. My strengths:

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