{"product_id":"a-space-for-us-a-guide-for-leading-black-indigenous-and-people-of-color-affinity-groups-9780807007860","title":"A Space for Us: A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A helpful introduction to facilitating affinity spaces in an inclusive, emergent, and trauma-informed way to foster the communal healing spaces that in turn ignite community action and liberation.\"--Resmaa Menakem, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eMy Grandmother's Hands\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMonsters in Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first comprehensive guide for leading BIPOC affinity groups for challenging white supremacy, healing racial trauma, and taking collective action\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeeting in racial affinity groups is a common practice in anti-racist, social justice, diversity, and similar forms of educational endeavors. These groups provide a structured space in which participants can explore how racism personally impacts them, process specific experiences of racism, receive validation and support from their peers, heal, and strategize next steps for challenging racism, white supremacy, and internalized racial oppression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Space for Us\u003c\/i\u003e, Michelle Cassandra Johnson brings her over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work to provide the first affinity groups guide made for BIPOC communities. This essential guide will: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvide an understanding of the racial hierarchy and how it has impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color differently.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefine and share common manifestations of internalized racial oppression.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefine anti-Blackness and provide skills to interrupt and address it. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShare rituals, practices, and sample agendas for affinity groups.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplain when it is useful to meet as one BIPOC group and when it is useful to meet based on one's specific racial identity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvide rituals and tools for healing in BIPOC affinity groups.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvide information about how to come back together as BIPOC and white people to strategize and take collective action.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003eComprehensive and accessible, \u003ci\u003eA Space for Us\u003c\/i\u003e offers practical guidance for facilitating effective BIPOC racial affinity groups and will be an important resource for BIPOC communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle Cassandra Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e has over 20 years of experience leading dismantling-racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker and has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She has a bachelors of arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a masters degree in social work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She published \u003ci\u003eSkill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World\u003c\/i\u003e in 2017 and \u003ci\u003eFinding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief\u003c\/i\u003e in 2021. Her upcoming book, \u003ci\u003eWe Heal Together: Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in April 2023.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620935209234,"sku":"9780807007860","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7bf565d-a6e2-4781-9f8a-dac172950945.jpg?v=1732575714","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-space-for-us-a-guide-for-leading-black-indigenous-and-people-of-color-affinity-groups-9780807007860","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}