Ubuntu Relational Love: Decolonizing Black Masculinities

by Devi Dee Mucina

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887558429
Publisher:	University of Manitoba Press
Publication date:	10/18/2019
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Granary 1 Sharing Indigenous Ubuntu Knowledge Granary 2 How to Walk this Path Granary 3 Kwakukhona as a Method of Engagement Granary 4 Ubuntu Orality as a Living Philosophy Granary 5 A Stained Letter to Amai (Mother) Granary 6 I am Your Son, Baba Granary 7 Social Actions of Ubuntu Regeneration Beyond Colonialism Granary 8 Stories of Blackness and Stories that Talk of Blackness Granary 9 Regenerating Everyday Ubuntu Actions Granary 10 Umuntu Ungumuntu Ngubuntu

What People are Saying About This

Robert Henry

“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.”