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Praise for We Deserve to Heal
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Do You Want to Get Well?
Chapter 1. Turning the Tides of Friendship
Chapter 2. Oluwatomisin’s Response: Aggravations
Chapter 3. In Pursuit of a Love That Frees
Chapter 4. Quantrilla’s Response: The Nice White Woman
Chapter 5. White Women Are the Worst
Chapter 6. Paula’s Response: White Girl, Please!
Chapter 7. Dear White Women in Black Churches
Chapter 8. Patrice’s Response: Places to Begin
Chapter 9. Transparency: Observations in Tears and Terror
Chapter 10. Velynn’s Response: Silencing Ghosts, Settling into Sisterhood
Chapter 11. Finding My Way
Chapter 12. Kadeisha’s Response: A Hairstory of Finding My Way
Chapter 13. The So-Called Life of Belonging: Discovering the Concept of Friendship through a Historical Lens
Chapter 14. Kathryn’s Response: In Search of My Tribe
Chapter 15. Seven Stones
Chapter 16. Chichi’s Response: Decentering Discomfort in Two Letters
Chapter 17. A Closed Forum: Q & A
Chapter 18. Dorena’s Response: A Dance in the Morning Light
Chapter 19. When You Let Go: Reflections on Misplaced Sisterhood, Double Dutch, and Other Reasons to Drop the Rope
Chapter 20. Deidra’s Response: Rope Burns
Wonder Beyond Wounds: A Collective Poem
Acknowledgments
Contributors
About the Editor

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We Deserve to Heal

Black Women on the Perils and Promises of Friendship with White Women

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Black Women on the Perils and Promises of Friendship with White Women

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