Kindred creation Parables and paradigms for freedom
Book - 2024
"An exploration of the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, and a call to design better worlds rooted in African lifeways"--
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- Published
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Berkeley, California :
North Atlantic Books
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xviii, 198 pages ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9798889841364
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Parable of the Tree: The Flowering Mimosa
- Introduction to Kindred Creation
- Part I. Re-Member: The Routes and Roots of Settler Colonialism
- Land
- Language
- Lifestyle
- The Fourth L: Labor
- History, as Told by the Hostages
- (Re)Memory: Fiction, Folklore, or Fact
- Colonial Visitations: History, Horror, and Hauntings
- Ethnographic Refusal
- Misrecognilion and Misrepresentation
- Echolocation: Using Sounds to See
- Design: Definitional Dilemma
- So, What is Design?
- Designed Whiteness: Whiteness as a Weapon and a Way of Worship
- My Offering: Refusal for Renewal
- Key Readings
- Terebeza Misale: The Parable of the Table
- Part II. Refuse: Unsettle the Settler
- Community Design: Parent Innovation Institute
- Design Thinking or Taking?
- A Note on Refusal and Resistance
- Roots of Resistance: Defining Yourself for Yourself
- Child's Play
- Rest and Retreat as Resistance
- The Map Ministry
- Refuse to Participate: The Forty Million Dollar Slave
- Resistance in Captivity
- Rage and Resistance
- Black Joy as Resistance
- Resistance as Invisible, Imaginative, and Insurgent
- Designing the Great Table
- Designing for F(r)iction
- Design to Defy
- Deliverance for a Defant People
- Refuse to Reform: Decolonize Design
- Belonging, Dignity, Justice, and Joy
- Designing for Belonging
- My Offering: From Refusal to Reciprocity and from Praxis to Prophecy
- Key Readings
- Part II. Reclaim: Return to Right Relationship
- Pregnant with Possibility: Conceiving and Bearing
- Mirtunng Relationships and Resistance
- Birthing and Rebirth
- African Time: Time is Vertical
- Loyal to the Soil: Place is Horizontal
- Rootedness and Reclamation: Sacred and Sanctuary
- The Weight of Being Well
- Creation Stories: Storytelling for Survival
- Fiction and Freedom
- Kindred Archivists
- Promiscuous Care
- Kindred Creation: Form, Function, and (Most Importantly) Freedom
- Recover: Land
- Recover: Language
- Recover: Lifestyle
- Myths, Maps, and Metaphors
- My Offering: Let's Make Relatives and Begin Again
- Parable of the Traveler
- Key Readings
- Index
- About the Author