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“Racial trauma is a common but underrecognized syndrome affecting millions of people of color in the Western world. Racial trauma refers to the severe mental and emotional injury caused by a multitude of experiences of racism compounded over a person's lifetime.”

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Book:A Clinician's Guide to Healing the Wounds of Racial Trauma: A 12-Session CBT-Based Protocol
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“Sometime look at a novice workman or a bad workman and compare his expression with that of a craftsman whose work you know is excellent and you’ll see the difference. The craftsman isn’t ever following a single line of instruction. He’s making decisions as he goes along. For that reason he’ll be absorbed and attentive to what he’s doing even though he doesn’t deliberately contrive this. His motions and the machine are in a kind of harmony. He isn’t following any set of written instructions because the nature of the material at hand determines his thoughts and motions, which simultaneously change the nature of the material at hand. The material and his thoughts are changing together in a progression of changes until his mind’s at rest at the same time the material’s right.”

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Book:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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“Stereotypes abound. [...] The most generous interpretation ascribes it to a kind of intellectual laziness: instead of judging people on their individual merits and deficits, we concentrate on one or two bits of information about them, and then place them in a small number of previously constructed pigeonholes. This saves the trouble of thinking, at the price in many cases of committing a profound injustice. It also shields the stereotyper from contact with the enormous variety of people, the multiplicity of ways of being human. Even if stereotyping were valid on average, it is bound to fail in many individual cases.”

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Book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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