ABSTRACT
Applied Critical Trauma Theory (ACTT) acknowledges the significance of racial trauma and centers racial identity as a source of resistance, resilience, and healing. This chapter explains how to apply ACTT to explore harm and healing in Tomi Adeyemi’s novel Children of Blood and Bone through four essential questions on oppression and cultural healing, allyship, and antiracism advocacy. It concludes by outlining a community advocacy project connected to the novel that promotes antiracism.
