TY  - BOOK
AU  - Temitope E. Adefarakan
PY  - 2014
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1947-5985
SN  - 9781453915837
TI  - The Souls of Yoruba Folk
T2  - Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1583-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051528
N2  - The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African diaspora strategically utilize their Indigenous spiritual knowledges as decolonizing tools of navigation, subversion, and resistance to colonial oppression in the purportedly ‘multicultural’ space of Canada. The author powerfully weaves together literature of Yoruba peoples from multiple contexts, spanning the African continent and its diaspora, including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe. With its strong emphasis on equity and the usefulness of spirituality in contexts of schooling, education, teaching, and learning, The Souls of Yoruba Folk is ideal for critical and multicultural education courses, and will be especially useful for educators and researchers in the areas of critical interdisciplinary studies, sociology, women’s studies/feminism, anti-racist scholarship and pedagogy, critical education, Canadian studies, equity and religious studies, and  African/Black diasporic studies.
KW  - canadian immigrants, canadian imigrants, diaspora, spirit, multiculturalism
LA  - English
ER  -