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When the Storm is Racial Trauma: A Sense of Belonging
In the era of segregated school systems (and a segregated society), how did African American teachers prepare their students to excel? One of the three critical indicators of student success–a sense of belonging, was an established building block in the segregated education of African American students. The unspoken , “I belong here”, created a comfort…
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Sometimes the storm is ancestral trauma…
At some time in life, everybody experiences some level of trauma. Additionally, studies show that each new generation adds on and carries within them the traumas that were lived by prior generations. In the case of African-Americans, our trauma is like none other. The nature of African Americans’ traumatic experiences, however, is quite different from…