My Grandmother’s Hands - "This Was in the Text!"
What movie did Resmaa Menakem show during his workshop?
12 Years a Slave.
What happened in Virginia in 1619?
The first recorded enslaved Africans arrived in English Virginia.
What does ACE stand for in the ACE Study?
Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Term for a farming system where tenants rent land from landowners in exchange for a share of their crops.
Sharecropping
What is historical trauma?
Trauma experienced by past generations that continues to affect their descendants.
What does Resmaa Menakem mean by "dirty pain"?
Pain that gets passed on to others through harmful reactions.
What is chattel slavery?
A system in which enslaved people were treated as property that could be bought, sold, or traded.
Approximately how many people participated in the ACE Study?
17,000 people.
Was the first person killed in the American Revolution, Crispus Attucks, free or enslaved?
Enslaved
What is secondary trauma?
Trauma experienced indirectly through witnessing or learning about another person's traumatic experiences.
What work by Dr. Joy DeGruy influenced Resmaa Menakem?
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
Who was Isaac Woodard?
A Black World War II veteran who was brutally beaten and blinded by police.
What is one long-term health condition linked to adverse childhood experiences?
Cancer, stroke, heart disease, depression, or chronic lung disease. (Any one is acceptable.)
Who was the first Black U.S. senator?
Hiram Revels.
What metaphor is used to describe how unhealed trauma spreads?
A rock thrown into a pond, creating ripples.
What metaphor does Menakem use to describe how trauma spreads to others?
A rock thrown into a pond, creating ripples.
A period of racial violence, lynching, discrimination, and legal segregation following Reconstruction.
Great Nadir
What is the term for trauma experienced indirectly through exposure to another person's traumatic experiences?
Vicarious trauma.
What is redlining?
A discriminatory practice that denies people access to mortgages, loans, insurance, and other financial services based on where they live.
What is a common misconception about resilience?
That resilience is only learned or developed during childhood, when it can develop and change throughout life.
What does ACE stand for, and what did the ACE Study examine?
Adverse Childhood Experiences. The study examined how difficult childhood experiences are linked to long-term health and social outcomes.
How did Abraham Lincoln describe the presence of freed Black people in the United States?
As a "troublesome presence."
According to the group's reading, how many years was the ACE Study conducted over?
15 years.
What solution did Abraham Lincoln propose for formerly enslaved Black Americans?
He proposed relocating freed Black Americans to colonies outside the United States.
According to My Grandmother's Hands, how has white-body supremacy created lasting trauma in Black communities?
Through centuries of racism, violence, oppression, and discrimination that have caused trauma across generations.