Ubuntu Relational Love: Decolonizing Black Masculinities - Softcover

Devi Dee Mucina (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887558429 ISBN 13: 9780887558429

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Devi Dee Mucina is an Assistant Professor in the Indigenous Governance program at the University of Victoria.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887558429
• ISBN 13: 9780887558429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264