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  1. 1. This week during the latest online debates on trigger warnings & safe spaces, I was reading @Drmarisajf’s book “Dispossessed Lives."
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      2. I just finished the powerful epilogue, where Fuentes notes that studying the history of slavery requires ...
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        3. Note, in that eloquent passage from Fuentes, the insistence on returning to difficult subject matter, on enduring with it. Yet ...
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          4. ... this vital intellectual process requires, even for the most committed scholar, "strategies to manage the emotional response."
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            5. Fuentes shows that strategies for managing trauma can (must) go hand in hand with scholarly imperatives to confront traumatic material.
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              6. Point also being: scholars who see that certain subjects "risk emotional strength" are not risk averse. I think they are the brave ones.
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