“Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” Journaling Questions

For White Participants: “How does understanding intergenerational trauma change your view of present-day racial disparities? What responsibility do white people have for creating conditions for collective healing when our ancestors created the conditions for collective trauma?”

For Black Participants (optional—never required): “Does the PTSS framework resonate with your experience or your family’s experience? What does it feel like to have language for something you may have always known but never named?”

For All Participants: “Dr. DeGruy argues that America has never engaged in the truth-telling and repair necessary for healing. What would it take for you personally to support reparations, truth and reconciliation processes, or other forms of collective healing? What resistance do you notice in yourself?”