We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet

In a series of letters to his mixed-race Koyukon Athabascan family, E. J. R. David shares his struggles, insecurities, and anxieties as a Filipino American immigrant man, husband, and father living in the lands dominated by his family's colonizer. The result is We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet, a deeply personal and heartfelt exploration of the intersections and widespread social, psychological, and health implications of colonialism, immigration, racism, sexism, intergenerational trauma, and internalized oppression. Weaving together his lived realities, his family's experiences, and empirical data, David reflects on a difficult journey, touching upon the importance of developing critical and painful consciousness, as well as the need for connectedness, strength, freedom, and love, in our personal and collective efforts to heal from the injuries of historical and contemporary oppression. The persecution of two marginalized communities is brought to the forefront in this book. Their histories underscore and reveal how historical and contemporary oppression has very real and tangible impacts on Peoples across time and generations.

Author: E. J. R. David
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 02/01/2018
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781438469522
ISBN10: 1438469527
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | Asian & Asian American
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Asian American Studies & Pacific
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies

About the Author
E. J. R. David is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology, editor of Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups, and coauthor (with Annie O. Derthick) of The Psychology of Oppression.