African American Folk Healing

Index

Index 187 African American folk healing: and African American religion, 121–123; and alternative medicine, 89; and art, 101; continuation of, 69–73; creativity of, 91; definition, 3; and efficacy, 65; and institutional medicine, 66–68; and Native Americans, 59; and nature, 64; other names of, 15; practices of, 58–68; as pragmatic, 62, 64; and roots, 60; Slave Narratives’ list of cures, 16–18 Art of Life Recycling Center, 115 Ashé Cultural Arts Center 111–113 Bailey, Eric, 145–146 Barnes, Annie, 107 biomedicine: as culture, 47–48; defining disease, 47 Bird, Stephanie Rose, 154–155, 161–162 black culture, difficulty of defining, 95–97 black intellectual traditions, 100–107 black mystical tradition, 92–95 Boas, Frans, 44 Brown v. Board of Education, 37, 83 Bulkley, William L., 56 Butler, Lee, 28 candle stores, 156–158 Chinn, Sara, 44 Chireau, Yvonne, 92, 123, 143 Clark, Kamari Maxine, 128 Coleman, Will, 40 conjure, 15; and faith healing, 123; and words, 39, 92 conjurer, practices of, 20; in black imagination , 22 Cooper, Anna Julia, 44 Cullen, Countee, 104 curios, 70–71 death, 161–162 Demerson, Bamidele, 36 dreams, 16; with messages from spirits, 161 Du Bois, W. E. B., 44, 105 Ellison, Ralph, 101 Emancipation Proclamation, 12 energy, 80–82, 85 faith healers, 135–139 faith healing, 23 Fausset, Arthur, 24 Folk Archives, Wayne State University, 57–67, 71, 77, 78 folk concept, 32–33 folk cultural associations, 25 folklore, defined, 25 Great Migrations, 54–57; 73; and continued folk healing, 57; and continued racism, 56; shifts in folk healing practices , 61 Gwaltney, John Langston, 69 Hamer, Fannie Lou, 108–109 Hansberry, Lorraine, 101 Harlem Renaissance, 103 healing: African concepts of, 35–36; holistic concepts of 35; and spirituality, 40 healing touch, 80, 86 Herskivits, Melville, 44 Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 32, 72–73 High John de Conquer, 103 Holmes, Barbara, 119 hoodoo: defined, 15; historical, 19–22, 142–143, 147–154, on the internet, 158– 160; and spirituality 19, 21 Hopkins, Dwight, 92, 144 Hughes, Langston, 101 Hurston, Zora Neale, in Florida, 12, 68– 69, 103, 121 hybridity, 62, 64, 70, 86–87, 146 illness: natural, 27; unnatural, 27–28 institutional medicine: as abusive to African Americans, 48–61, 78; and African American folk healing, in contrast to, 66–68; and continuation of African American folk healing, 50–52; cost of, 51–52; defined, 46–47 Jarmon, Laura, 27; 120 Jim Crow, 108 kinesiology, applied, 87, 89, 93–94 language, 29–30; and Negro dialect, 30 literacy, 31n. 171 Long, Carolyn Morrow, 70–71, 156, 158 Maafa events, 112–114 McQuillar, Tayannah Lee, 144–145 metaphysics, 89 Mintz, Sidney, 34 Mitchell, Faith, 145 mojo: bag, 147–148; defined, 20 names, importance of, 105–108 Nation of Islam, 130–131 National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, 109–110 Òyótúnjí Village, 127–129 Parks, Fayth, 83 Plessy v. Ferguson, 12 Price, Richard, 34 Reconstruction, 12 Reed, Adolph, 107 Reed, Ishmael, 146 reparations as healing, 108–111 Rivers, Eunice, 48–50 Robinson, Randall, 109 rootworker, 20, 23 Sanchez, Sonia, 101 Santería, 125 Slave Narratives, 4; folk healing interviews , 13–18 social class, 72, 84 Somé, Malidoma, 124 Snow, Loudell, 71, 74 spirituality, 2, 18; embodied, 84–85 Teish, Luisah, 124, 158 “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in Negro Males,” 48–49 Vanzant, Iyanla 121 Villarosa, Linda, 38 Walker, Alice, 39 Walker, David, 42–43 Washington, Booker T., 54 Wayne State University. See Folk Archives White, Deborah Gray, 22–23 Williams, Delores, 124 Wilmore, Gayraud, 121 women, as folk healers, 84–87 World Council Against Racism, 110 Yronwode, Catherine 155–156, 159 188 Index ...