Vassar Scholarship
Speaking to the Silences: Black Women's Mediation of Historical Trauma and Healing
Publication Date
2014-January-01
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Department or Program
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Abstract
Black women's trauma, which is largely unclaimed, un-mediated and unrecognized, is transgenerational. The physical, social, and psychological effects of holding on to a racialized history of trauma, caused by systematic and structural racism and sexism, continue to effect the identity...
