Imagine Freedom
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Imagine Freedom

Transforming Pain into Political and Spiritual Power

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Imagine Freedom

Transforming Pain into Political and Spiritual Power

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About This Book

A social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of African descent struggling in the shadows of the American Dream.

The United States is at a critical juncture in its history. Not since the 1960s has the nation been so racially divided. White supremacy remains America's Achilles' heel—a moral failure that haunts us and holds us back from being the great nation we profess. For centuries, people of African descent have endured unimaginable hatred and discrimination which has manifested in pain and trauma passed from generation to generation. To break free from this historical cycle of suffering and be truly free at last, Black and brown people must reimagine ourselves, our communities, this country, and our relationship to Africa.

Weaving storytelling, socioeconomic analysis, and cultural criticism with the spiritual and political threads of liberation theology and Pan Africanism, Imagine Freedom empowers us to begin the difficult but necessary work of decolonizing our minds and overcoming the lies we have been told about ourselves for centuries. Sobering and inspiring, filled with despair and hope, Rahiel Tesfamariam dares us to see the world through a larger historical and global lens— to understand how our quests for freedom and healing are intrinsically connected to our past, present, and future. By widening our vision, we discover new ways of imagining self, community, nation, and world, and most importantly, a new way to achieve the freedom that has been too long denied.

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Publisher
Amistad
Year
2024
ISBN
9780063253100
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
African American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Part One: Resilience
  5. 1: Reclamation
  6. 2: Trauma
  7. Part Two: Resistance
  8. 3: Capitalism
  9. 4: Media
  10. 5: Uprising
  11. 6: Pan-Africanism
  12. Part Three: Redemption
  13. 7: Self-Determination
  14. 8: Love
  15. 9: Faith
  16. Conclusion
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. About the Author
  21. Praise for Imagine Freedom
  22. Copyright
  23. About the Publisher