02649cam a2200349 i 4500 1155732175 TxAuBib 20240320120000.0 231103s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063253087 HRD 29.99 0063253089 HRD 29.99 (OCoLC)1416719676 TxAuBib rda Tesfamariam, Rahiel. Imagine freedom [BOOK] : transforming pain into political and spiritual power / Rahiel Tesfamariam. Transforming pain into political and spiritual power. First edition. New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] ©2024. v, 297 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index. "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. 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.". 20240320. African Americans Social conditions 1975- African Americans Politics and government 20th century. African Americans Relations with Africans. Liberty. United States Race relations.