Black women's yoga history : memoirs of inner peace /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Evans, Stephanie Y. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Series:Suny series in black women's wellness
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Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 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
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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. Purpose of Black Women's Studies: Meditation on a Fiftieth Anniversary.