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Positive Discipline is a program designed to encourage young people to become responsible, respectful and resourceful members of their communities. Based on the best selling Positive Discipline books by Dr. Jane Nelsen, Positive Discipline employs non-punitive methods for teaching valuable social and life skills in a manner that is respectful and encouraging for both children and adults.

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Based on the best selling Positive Discipline books by Dr. Jane Nelsen, Positive Discipline employs non-punitive methods for teaching valuable social and life skills in a manner that is respectful and encouraging for both children and adults (parents, teachers, childcare providers, youth workers, and others).

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Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this educational resource delineates how black males learn differently from other students and what can be done to most effectively reach them. Outlining the differences as both behavioral (attention span, aggression, maturation, energy level, and pressure from peers) and educational (verbal skills, organization, gross and fine motor skills, and reading interests) among others, this proposal provides real-world experiences alongside theories, making this an essential guide for educators, parents, counselors, psychologists, and others involved with black male adolescents. A section on how the majority of teachers, who are nonblack and female, can extend their education to overcome differences within the normal classroom setting, and help to reduce the number of black males in special education, is also provided.

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Understanding Black Male Learning Styles

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Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this educational resource delineates how black males learn differently from other students and what can be done to most effectively reach them. Outlining the differences as both behavioral (attention span, aggression, maturation, energy level, and pressu

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In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans--our police.

My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.

* Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy--how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system.

* Offers a step-by-step healing process, in addition to incisive social commentary.

"Sensitive and probing, this book from therapist Menakem delves into the complex effects of racism and white privilege....he speaks from the wisdom of his grandmother and his own expertise in somatic therapy." Publishers Weekly

"An exceptionally thought-provoking and important account that looks at race in a radical new way. For all readers." Library Journal

"Kudos to Resmaa Menakem for such a sorely-needed seminal work which couldn't be more practical or more timely, given this bitterly-divided country's current state of race relations." The Harlem Dispatch

Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem has studied with bestselling authors Dr. David Schnarch ( Passionate Marriage) and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk ( The Body Keeps the Score). He also trained at Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

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my grandmother's hands: racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem available in Trade Paperback on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in...

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Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. They begin life with a "natural head start." However, their natural genius it too frequently underdeveloped and misdirected by (1)the fact that the racist and he imperialist status quo politically mandates their intellectual under-achievement and social mal-adaptiveness; (2) belief in the myth that intelligence is fixed at birth and that Afrikans are innately less intelligent than Europeans; (3) a lack of knowledge of their positively unique developmental psychology; (4) a lack of confidence in their ability to equal or surpass the intellectual performance of any other ethnic group; (5) the general lack of infant and early childhood educational experiences which stimulate, sustain and actualize their abundant human potential.

Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children by Amos Wilson provides effective means by which these political and social maladies may be fully remedied.

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Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children - Kentake Page

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Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. They begin life with a "natural head start." However, their natural genius it too frequently underdeveloped and misdirected by (1)the fact that the racist and he imperialist status quo politically mandates their intellectual under-achievement and social mal-adaptiveness; (2) belief in the myth that...

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Kill Them Before They Grow: Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American Cl | PanAfricanConnection

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Each Nomadic Press title now includes anintroduction by the author and a classroom guide at the back of the book. Our hope is that this will be helpful as teachers utilize our titles in their classrooms. Most authors are also available to speak to classrooms, as is our publisher, J. K. Fowler. To make a request for an appearance, simply email info@nomadicpress.org.

Universities, independent bookstores, and libraries can order from our distributor, Small Press Distribution, below. They offer free returns.
Teachers click here (desk/examination copies available)
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PRAISE FOR mourning my inner[blackgirl] child

reelaviolette botts-ward' collection of poetry, mourning my inner[blackgirl] child, is a provocative, moving, disturbing text whose pedagogical and healing possibilities are staggering. Footnotes are unusual for a collection of poems but contribute enormously to our understanding of the fragility, precarity, and vulnerability of Black girlhood/womanhood. Perhaps surprisingly, botts-ward makes a significant contribution to the embryonic field of Black Girlhood Studies. Her Black feminist analysis of what can be learned from girlhood trauma is refreshing and pioneering.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, PhD, Founding Director of the Women's Research & Resource Center at Spelman College and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College. She is also the former president of the National Women's Studies Association.

Poetry as a sacred prayer, that is how this collection settled into my heart. A work of art would be an understatement.

Alexandra Elle, author of After the Rain

In a world that marginalizes, castigates, and abuses Black women, reelaviolette botts-ward loves us. She loves us as she exposes the raw truth of those external pressures on our bodies, minds, and spirits. She loves us defiantly and brilliantly, treats us with care and attention, as she crafts a poetics infused praxis of resilience and regeneration. In this book, she fearlessly reveals her personal harm and invites us to develop an empathetic depth needed for collective change. Hers is a praxis of self-healing and freedom, and she generously holds out a hand to guide us all, too. Healing is messy and the practice of healing is hard; still, she pulls us along, persistently. She breaks through tangles and reveals the spikes that threaten within narrative, deftly composed poetic form, and an interweaving of spell-inducing metaphor. Particularly in the integration of poems written in her teenage years, reelaviolette shows us a clarity in her wisdom and healing. She loves us Black women and that is the greatest testament to her daring in this important work, for love is the foundation of any movement that truly shapes the world and the people within it anew.

Raina León, PhD, author of Profeta Without Refuge

PUBLICATION DETAILS
All of our books are printed locally in Oakland, California. We strongly believe in supporting local publishers and local printers.
February 2021 * 5 x 7 * 122 pp. * Trade Paper

ISBN: 978-1-7363963-5-3

Cover artwork and author portrait by Arthur Johnstone

Interior and cover design by Britta Fithian-Zurn

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mourning my inner[blackgirl]child is an unabashed exposure of girlhood fragility, ancestral grieving, and embodied remembering. In her excavation of multiple pasts and multiple selves, reelaviolette botts-ward journeys through intimate encounters with her mother(s), her home, her body, and her prec