Abstract
This chapter analyzes the biographical narratives of racism against Guatemalan-Mayan immigrants and Brazilian urban Amerindians. It will be demonstrated how racism causes trauma in Guatemalan-Mayan immigrants and Brazilian urban Amerindians by understanding how memory forms of trauma may be divided between particular episodes of experiential trauma or “synchronic trauma” or experiential trauma over long periods of time or “diachronic trauma.” Thus, this chapter also broadens the discussion of racism by addressing current affairs in the United States and beyond, for example, Trump’s racist rhetoric; the consequences of the murder of George Floyd and African-American deaths at the hands of the police; racism against Native Americans in the United States; the racialized issues surrounding COVID-19 and Native peoples in Brazil.
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Linstroth, J.P. (2022). Racial Trauma and Racism. In: Politics and Racism Beyond Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91720-3_5
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