Where Does Racial Generational Trauma Come From, And Can It Be Stopped?
On the latest episode of
Basic Black, host Callie Crossley is joined by four experts to look at racial generational trauma and how issues are passed down from one generation to the next. The result can have far-reaching implications, such as affecting one’s health, livelihood, and relationships. What can be done to recognize, address and combat it?
Joining the panel discussion are guests Gary Bailey, DHL, MSW, ACSW, from the Simmons University School of Social Work; Charles Daniels Jr., Ph.D., therapist and CEO of Father’s Uplift; C. Shawn McGuffey, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of African & African Diaspora Studies at Boston College; and Kim McLarin, Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director for the Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing at Emerson College.
The series four segments follow the outline by attorney and civil rights activist Bryan Stevenson slavery, lynching, segregation, and mass-incarceration.
The series is linked to the page of the Diversity, Racial Equity and Inclusion Committee, and is also available on YouTube and at Chelmsford Telemedia.
Congregation Shalom, a synagogue in town to which Heines belongs, plans a virtual presentation and discussion of the series on Jan. 18, for Martin Luther King Day.
Heines, a retired computer science professor who worked at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, serves on Congregation Shalom s adult education and social justice committees. Civil rights is a major tenet of Reform Judaism, Heines said.