My Grandmother’s Hands
My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
2 min readApr 9, 2021
In the very excellent book, My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem, he refers to people like Malcolm X and James Baldwin as having settled bodies and focused minds. The book is about racialized trauma and he uses the terms white body supremacy, white bodies, black bodies, and police bodies.
