Evans Black Women's Yoga History

Memoirs of Inner Peace
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8365-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Black Women's Wellness

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Stephanie Y.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Long, Jana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Foreword
Jana Long, cofounder and executive director, Black Yoga Teachers Alliance

Preface. What Lies Inside: Writing Myself Well

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Mental Health, Healing, and Wellness: An Intellectual History of Self-Care

Part I: Look Inward. Healing Traditions (A 1975 Portrait)

1. Yoga is Self-Possession

2. Managing Traumatic Stress

3. Medica, cura te ipsum—Physician, Heal Thyself: Meditation on a Fiftieth Birthday

Part II: Look Backward. Historical Wellness (Pre-1975)

4. Blue Zones for Black Women: Centenarians on Mind, Body, and Spirit

5. Weathering the Weary Blues: Enslavement, Jane Crow, and Migration

6. Everyday Violence, Everyday Peace: Civil Rights, Black Power, and a New Age

Part III: Look Forward. Toward Mental Health (Post-1975)

7. Memoirs are Mentors: Narratives of Africana Yoga

8. Survivor Self-Care: Midlife Mindfulness and Wellness Activism

9. The Purpose of Black Women's Studies: Meditation on a Fiftieth Anniversary

Conclusion. Woosah—Remember to Breathe: Ancient Peace, Self-Care Pedagogy, and the Future of Africana Yoga

Coda. My Last Will and Testament: Stress and Inner Peace during a Global Pandemic

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie Y. Evans is a Professor of Black Women's Studies, Director of the Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of African American Studies and in the Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience at Georgia State University. Her books include Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons (coedited with Andrea D. Domingue and Tania D. Mitchell); Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability (coedited with Kanika Bell and Nsenga K. Burton); and African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research (coedited with Colette M. Taylor, Michelle R. Dunlap, and DeMond S. Miller), all published by SUNY Press.