In reality, the relocation center was a cold, desolate prison camp. Right after Pearl Harbor, Nori’s grandparents and family, all Japanese Americans, were forced out of their home and told they would enter a relocation center. Of the many stories included, Nori’s stands out to me. We peer into the lives of African Americans, Japanese Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native peoples, Black South Africans, and people of mixed ethnicity. Throughout her book, Rowe paints a disturbing yet helpful picture of racial trauma and its effect on different people groups. She has also taught counseling and trauma-related courses. Holding a master’s degree in counseling psychology, Rowe has ministered to abuse and trauma survivors in the US and homeless, abused women and children in Johannesburg, South Africa. And yet, because of Jesus and the forgiveness and resilience he offers, readers can choose hope and work for peace and reconciliation. I could hear their cries and feel their anguished souls. Throughout the pages of Sheila Wise Rowe’s Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, I could feel the pain locked inside the stories of so many people.
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