Many argue that the issue of race and racial divide is the single, most powerful force in American politics and in our social order. Dr. Rhonda Magee’s recent book challenges us to consider race as a social construct - fictional, yet present in our everyday lives. She shows how race and racism are embedded into our history, our upbringing, and our thoughts that result in our defining people as Asian, white, black, Hispanic, etc., and creating impressions that affect our world view and ways we interact. 

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menkaem, MSW, LICSW, SEP (Central Recovery Press, 2017) is a powerful book that confronts the impact of racial trauma of black and white skinned peoples. The book is unique in that the author persuasively argues that healing from racial injustice in our country will only occur from deep investigation of the internalized trauma ​that leads to White Supremacy, and the aftermath we live over and over again in the experience of black-skinned peoples.