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Origins of Love, Truth & Justice: African-Centered Cultural Neuroscience and Unlearning the Effects of Eurocentric Utamawazo
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An introduction to the edition
About this edition.
Beginning with a family story from Puerto Rico, Justine brings together diaspora, lived experience, cultural frameworks, and spiritual reflection to examine the assumptions people inherit. Read the original ↗
The essay explores Marimba Ani’s concepts of asili and utamawazo, connects the discussion with Indigenous perspectives and permaculture, and invites readers to reconsider how love, acceptance, and collective responsibility inform their lives. Read the original ↗
Follow the threads.
Inherited cultural frameworks
Examining which norms are presented as universal and how those standards shape belonging and identity. In the edition ↗
Personal history and cultural inquiry
Connecting family stories and lived experience with questions about power and accepted ways of knowing. In the edition ↗
Acceptance and collective care
Reflecting on the relationship between individual self-acceptance, community, and responsibility to the natural world. In the edition ↗
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