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Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing (Paperback)

Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing By Esther A. Armah, Brittney Cooper (Foreword by), Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Esther A. Armah, Brittney Cooper (Foreword by), Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by)
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It is time for an emotional reckoning on our path to racial healing, sustainable equity, and the future of DEI. Here’s the tool to help us navigate it.

In this groundbreaking book, Esther Armah argues that the crucial missing piece to racial healing and sustainable equity is emotional justice—a new racial healing language to help us do our emotional work. This work is part of the emotional reckoning we must navigate if racial healing is to be more than a dream. We all—white, Black, Brown—have our emotional work that we need to do. But that work is not the same for all of us.

This emotional work means unlearning the language of whiteness, a narrative that centers white people, particularly white men, no matter the deadly cost and consequence to all women and to global Black and Brown people. That’s why a new racial healing language is crucial.

Emotional Justice grapples with how a legacy of untreated trauma from oppressive systems has created and sustained dual deadly fictions: white superiority and Black inferiority that shape—and wound—all of us. These systems must be dismantled to build a future that serves justice to everyone, not just some of us. We are the dismantlers we have been waiting for, and emotional justice is the game changer for a just future that benefits all of us.

About the Author


Esther Armah is an international award-winning journalist, playwright, radio host, and writer. She is currently executive director and founder of the Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, a global institute implementing the emotional justice framework she created; the institute works on projects, training, and thought leadership.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781523003365
ISBN-10: 1523003367
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Date: October 11th, 2022
Pages: 192
Language: English