University of Manitoba Press
Ubuntu Relational Love
About this book
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.
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“With honest, raw, and at times emotional testimony, Mucina shows just how inscribed colonization is on Indigenous bodies and examines its impacts specifically on Black Indigenous masculinities.”
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Glossary of Ubuntu Terms
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Glossary of Punjabi Terms
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Glossary of Pictographs
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Kwakukhona as a Methodology
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Ubuntu Philosophies Emerge from Relational Living Theories
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Passing Ubuntu Knowledge to the Future
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Ubuntu Oratures and Relational Accountability
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A Letter Across Many Borders to Amai
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Finding Baba, Finding Our Fragmented Family
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The Journey to You and Our Journey Home
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Creating Our Family
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Regenerating Everyday Ubuntu Actions
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Umuntu Ungumuntu Ngubuntu
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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