Category: Recommendations

• Book Rec: Black Fatigue

  

  In Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit, Mary-Frances Winters presents a powerful and deeply insightful exploration of the lasting effects of systemic racism. With clarity and compassion, she unpacks how generational racial trauma impacts Black individuals—not just socially and economically, but physically and spiritually. For Christian leaders committed to justice, unity,…

  hcarmstrong

  January 30, 2025

  culture, leadership, Recommendations

  Black History, books, dei, diversity, equity, ethnicity, history, inclusion, politics, race, racism

• Stigma Pressure

  

  Can stereotypes be detrimental even if you don’t believe them? In Whistling Vivaldi, Dr. Claude Steele addresses the idea of stigma pressure. Some common stereotypes in America are: These and many other erroneous assumptions have wreaked havoc on our culture and continue to damage relationships. Further, the beliefs and assumptions of the general culture can…

  hcarmstrong

  July 25, 2024

  culture, Recommendations

  anxiety, Asian, community, culture, dei, depression, Equality, mental-health, mental-illness, race, steryotype, stigma, vivaldi, Women

• Recommendation: The 1619 Project

  

  When I speak and teach on racial reconciliation, one resource that I regularly recommend is The 1619 Project. Named for the year when the first ship containing enslaved Africans docked in United States, The 1619 Project provides a deeper historical perspective of the United States by delving into the atrocities of chattel slavery and the…

  hcarmstrong

  February 28, 2024

  Recommendations

  1619 Project, Black History, dei, diversity, equity, inclusion, MLK, politics, Pulitzer Prize