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This is a review of Lisa Woolfork's interestingly misguided attempt to use trauma to investigate and affirm African-American identities. The fallacies in the book are so topical and popular that the review, IMO, is a healthy corrective. The review first appeared in the Journal of American ethnic studies 31(4):88-90 · June 2012. A more detailed treatment of the critique is in the Introduction and the 1990s half of my Post-Traumatic Culture (Johns Hopkins, 1998).