I am looking for a book about racial discrimination trauma and feeling of “otherness”. Suggestions can either be non fiction/more psychology based or fiction/storytelling of a similar experience and how they dealt with it
I am almost always the only person in any space of my racial and ethnic background. It has made me feel isolated and othered a lot of the time. So books like that. I am also curious on what these feelings do to your brain as well. To be often alone and misunderstood. I am often super impressed with other people who go through similar feelings but have found ways to work through it and not let it get to them as much (it really gets to me sometimes).
Thank you!
by yazzywazzy
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for the psychology side, check out “my name is not refugee” by kate milner or “the body keeps the score” – that one’s more about trauma in general but hits on how isolation messes with your head.
Between America and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates.