We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet

<p><b>A father's personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family's experiences and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.</b></p><p>In a series of letters to his mixed-race Koyukon Athabascan family E. J. R. David shares his struggles insecurities and anxieties as a Filipino American immigrant man husband and father living in the lands dominated by his family's colonizer. The result is <i>We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet</i> a deeply personal and heartfelt exploration of the intersections and widespread social psychological and health implications of colonialism immigration racism sexism intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression. Weaving together his lived realities his family's experiences and empirical data David reflects on a difficult journey touching upon the importance of developing critical and painful consciousness as well as the need for connectedness strength freedom and love in our personal and collective efforts to heal from the injuries of historical and contemporary oppression. The persecution of two marginalized communities is brought to the forefront in this book. Their histories underscore and reveal how historical and contemporary oppression has very real and tangible impacts on Peoples across time and generations.</p>