Assemblies of Sorrow Sandra Mcleod Humphrey Essential reading for all frontline

Essential reading for all frontline adult social work and mental health practitioners

They are not born yet

The author observes and explains such phenomena as the flight of birds

A hard-hitting yet nuanced analysis

regardless of what activities and occupations they pursue

Assemblies of Sorrow Sandra Mcleod Humphrey Essential reading for all frontlineDuring the Jim Crow era, Black activists appealed to a diverse population of migrating Black Americans by making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. To this end, they organized public gatherings, mostly comprised of Black people, that fostered fears of looming physical harm. Samuel Galen Ng illuminates this Black consciousness as it emanated from feelings