In a series of letters to his mixed-race Koyukon Athabascan family, E. J. R. David shares his struggles, insecurities, and anxieties as a Filipino American immigrant man, husband, and father living in the lands dominated by his family’s colonizer. The result is
We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet, a deeply personal and heartfelt exploration of the intersections and widespread social, psychological, and health implications of colonialism, immigration, racism, sexism, intergenerational trauma, and internalized oppression. Weaving together his lived realities, his family’s experiences, and empirical data, David reflects on a difficult journey, touching upon the importance of developing critical and painful consciousness, as well as the need for connectedness, strength, freedom, and love, in our personal and collective efforts to heal from the injuries of historical and contemporary oppression. The persecution of two marginalized communities is brought to the forefront in this book. Their histories underscore and reveal how historical and contemporary oppression has very real and tangible impacts on Peoples across time and generations.
Table of Content
Preface
Prologue
1. My American Family
2. My Love
3. My Sons
4. My Daughter
5. Our Roots
Postscript
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
E. J. R. David is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of
Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology, editor of
Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups, and coauthor (with Annie O. Derthick) of
The Psychology of Oppression.
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