Black Women and Da ’Rona
Author | : Julia S. Jordan-Zachery |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2023-04-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780816548538 |
ISBN-13 | : 0816548536 |
Rating | : 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Deliberately writing against archival erasure and death driven logics of anti-Blackness, this volume chronicles Black women's aliveness, ethics of care, and rituals of healing. Nineteen contributors from interdisciplinary fields and diverse backgrounds explore Black feminine community, consciousness, ethics of care, spirituality, and social critique. They situate Black women's multidimensional experiences with COVID-19 and other violences that affect their lives. The stories they tell are connected and interwoven, bound together by anti-Black gendered COVID necropolitics and commitments to creating new spaces for breathing, healing and wellness"--