Racism vicariously damages intimacy and capacity to love across generations

Evidence

I was looking through the eyes of my mother, cousins, and aunts… I began to see how our most intimate relationships, our abilities to love, express ourselves, and indeed to live, are deeply and permanently affected by racism. (Dericotte, 1997:20, 188) In many instances autobiographical materials and personal accounts or life stories prove to be insightful testimonies. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1456

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ideas of cumulative and intergenerational harm the reader tracks — how harm transmits across generations and intimate bonds, resonating with A Very Minor Prophet and Jane Eyre themes of how environment mines the private self.