'Cultures of healing': spirituality, interdependence and resistance in the African diaspora

Concepts of healing and spirituality have remained crucial to generating agency and empowerment for both black women and black men, especially in their diasporic displacement from Africa to the US. Healing has been consistently deployed to fight against the systemic racism and sexism that has pervad...

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Published inAfrican and black diaspora Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 68 - 79
Main Author Gallego, Mar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.01.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
African diaspora
Black people
Connectedness
Diaspora
Empowerment
Ethics
Genealogy
Healing
Health
Interdependence
Resistance
Sexism
Spirituality
Systemic racism
Africa
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Summary:Concepts of healing and spirituality have remained crucial to generating agency and empowerment for both black women and black men, especially in their diasporic displacement from Africa to the US. Healing has been consistently deployed to fight against the systemic racism and sexism that has pervaded and continues to persist in the lives of African diasporic subjects. Placing the discussion of healing within the current debates about interdependence and spirituality, the paper traces the notion back to its African roots and enslavement times, and attempts to delineate a genealogy of healing up to the present that grounds interdependence and interconnectedness within an 'ethics of resistance'.
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ISSN:1752-8631
1752-864X
DOI:10.1080/17528631.2019.1637144