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Social Science Gender Studies

Ubuntu Relational Love

Decolonizing Black Masculinities

by (author) Devi Dee Mucina

Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2019
Category
Gender Studies, Black Studies (Global), Indigenous Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780887558986
    Publish Date
    Oct 2019
    List Price
    $70.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780887555862
    Publish Date
    Oct 2019
    List Price
    $24.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887558429
    Publish Date
    Oct 2019
    List Price
    $27.95
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9780887552984
    Publish Date
    Jul 2022
    List Price
    $36.99

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Description

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 the author

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

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