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Black Americans’ resilience during centuries of racially-motivated violence is beyond remarkable. But continuing to endure this harm allows for generations of trauma to fester and grow. Healing has to be the priority going forward.
Then They Came for Mine: Healing from the Trauma of Racial Violence is written with that healing in mind. It unpacks how American systems and institutions enable the kind of violence we’ve seen connected to white supremacy and nationalism. It examines the way media has created a desensitization to violence against Black bodies. It outlines what it looks like for a person who claims to follow Jesus to be anti-racist. But more than anything, it offers a blueprint for healing and reconciliation that includes the necessity of white people untangling from an ancestral mandate of colonization and false notions of supremacy, and Black and Brown people reckoning with the impact of trauma and feeling free to grieve in whatever way grief shows up.
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Praise for “Then They Came for Mine”
“Part memoir, part mediation, part manifesto, this work has the character and skill of poetry, the brilliance of grace, the mystery of Black wisdom, and the illumination that the world we have been given is not all that there is to life. This book is affirmation. It is witness. It is lush. It is liberation. It is fire. It is spirit. It is testimony. It is gospel.”
— Danté Stewart, author of Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle
“This is not a book to be approached lightly. This is holy ground.”
— Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Professor of Practical Theology & Pastoral Care, Columbia Theological Seminary
“Timely, holistic, and insightful…Anyone who desires whole mind-body-spirit healing from racial trauma should read this book.”
— Christena Cleveland, author of God Is a Black Woman and founder of the Center for Justice + Renewal
“…an accessible and frank mind-body-spirit analysis of the kind of Christian faith needed to authentically respond to black people’s trauma caused by white racial violence.”
— Traci C. West, author of Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Racism, Religion, and Ending Gender Violence
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Black Joy: A Strategy for Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration (Gallery/Simon and Schuster) is TMLG’s collection of 36 lyrical autobiographical essays that celebrate the redemptive strength of joy in Black culture—and explore the many ways it is critical for our personal and collective healing.
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What Folks are Saying About Black Joy:
“Tracey uses her own journey to help readers navigate the tumultuous terrain that is at the heart of holding on to our joy, especially for Black folks. So many will find themselves in this deeply self-aware, generous and lyrical writing, but more importantly, so many will see that everything we have been through and everything we have are the recipe for claiming and keeping joy.”
—Tarana Burke, Founder of the MeToo Movement and author of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
“Black Joy is a glorious gift to Black folks. Intimate, engrossing, and deeply resonant, Lewis-Giggetts' essays form a loving blueprint for healing and nourishing our minds and our spirits. An essential read for all of us who are trying to get free.”
—Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Finalist - National Book Awards 2020 for Fiction
“Evocative, honest and beautifully written, Black Joy is a balm to the soul."
—Bernice L. McFadden, Author of The Book of Harlan, Gathering of Waters, and Sugar
“…a necessary testimony on the magic and beauty of our capacity to live and love fully and out loud.”
—Kerry Washington Actor/Director/Producer, Scandal and Little Fires Everywhere
“Black Joy meditates, and really levitates, the Black sensory and the Black sensual to stratospheric heights. Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts wields curiosity like a scalpel, revealing shards of liberation and unexpected heterotopias while loving us ferociously.” - —Kiese Laymon, Author of Heavy and Long Division
Black Joy on GMA
TMLG spoke with Good Morning America’s TJ Holmes about the power of Black Joy.
