Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee Mucina is a Black Indigenous Ubuntu man. In Ubuntu Relational Love, he uses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures.
Called “millet granaries” to reflect the nourishing and sustaining nature of Indigenous knowledges, and written as letters addressed to his mother, father, and children, Mucina’s oratures take up questions of geopolitics, social justice, and resistance. Working through personal and historical legacies of dispossession and oppression, he challenges the fragmentation of Indigenous families and cultures and decolonizes impositions of white supremacy and masculinity.
Drawing on anti-racist, African feminist, and Ubuntu theories and critically influenced by Indigenous masculinities scholarship in Canada, Ubuntu Relational Love is a powerful and engaging book.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214) and index
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 199.68
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780887555886 9780887558429
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- B5315.U28
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- M83 2019eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 218 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00979949 (CaOOCEL)457012
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Decolonizing black masculinities
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Glossary of Ubuntu Terms 8
- Glossary of Punjabi Terms 9
- Glossary of Pictographs 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- Introduction 18
- Millet Granary 1: Kwakukhona as a Methodology 30
- Millet Granary 2: Ubuntu Philosophies Emerge from Relational Living Theories 48
- Millet Granary 3: Passing Ubuntu Knowledge to the Future 70
- Millet Granary 4: Ubuntu Oratures and Relational Accountability 80
- Millet Granary 5: A Letter Across Many Borders to Amai 94
- Millet Granary 6: Finding Baba, Finding Our Fragmented Family 120
- Millet Granary 7: The Journey to You and Our Journey Home 146
- Millet Granary 8: Creating Our Family 174
- Millet Granary 9: Regenerating Everyday Ubuntu Actions 204
- Millet Granary 10: Umuntu Ungumuntu Ngubuntu 216
- Notes 222
- Bibliography 226
- Index 232
