How have Black women elders managed stress? In
Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than fifty yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.
Spis treści
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
O autorze
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 De Mond S. Miller), all published by SUNY Press.
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