New PDF release: Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength

Black girls are powerful. at the least that is what all people says and the way they're continually depicted. yet what, precisely, does this energy entail? And what rate do Black ladies pay for it? during this publication, the writer, a psychologist and pastoral theologian, examines the burdensome yoke that the ideology of the powerful Black lady locations upon African American girls. She demonstrates how the 3 middle gains of the ideology--emotional power, caregiving, and independence--constrain the lives of African American ladies and predispose them to actual and emotional illnesses, together with weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, and nervousness. She strains the historic, social, and theological affects that ended in the evolution and upkeep of the powerful Black lady, together with the Christian church, R & B and hip-hop artists, and renowned tv and movie. Drawing upon womanist pastoral theology and twelve-step philosophy, she calls upon pastoral caregivers to assist within the therapeutic of African American women's identities and crafts a twelve-step application for powerful Black ladies in recovery.

"Too Heavy a Yoke is a much-needed, considerate, and nuanced exam of the 'Strong Black lady' stereotype--a major new contribution to a number of disciplines of pastoral care and counseling, psychology, sociology, African American and womanist-feminist reports, and confident theology. Walker Barnes attracts on either womanist and Trinitarian theologies to envision how the church can play an element in therapeutic and releasing black ladies from 'the burden of strength.' Meticulously researched and fantastically written, this e-book belongs at the shelf of each minister and pastoral counselor, and certainly each girl who understands in her soul the burdens of being a 'StrongBlackWoman.'"
--Pamela Cooper-White, Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling, Columbia Theological Seminary

"Well performed! This ebook is a much-needed reward to the sphere of pastoral theology. it's a good nuanced and explicated learn quantity and a pragmatic advisor for caregivers, pastors, those that love girls suffering from the ideology of the 'StrongBlackWoman,' in addition to these in recovery."
--Marsha Foster Boyd, President Emerita, Ecumenical Theological Seminary

"A prayerful, prophetic, poetic, pastoral, robust womanist research of the StrongBlackWoman, from an interdisciplinary, experiential viewpoint names the context, content material, complexities, and pathology of many Black women's embodied archetypal, systemic oppression and posits hopeful innovations for a paradigmatic shift of restoration. Woven with artistry and keenness, Too Heavy a Yoke is a must-read for clergy, therapists, caregivers, and any individuals or teams dedicated to the liberation of black ladies, eventually the liberation of all society."
--Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Professor of faith, Shaw college Divinity School

Chanequa Walker-Barnes is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at McAfee university of Theology, Mercer collage, Atlanta, Georgia. She is an authorized psychologist and a candidate for ordination within the United Methodist Church. Her articles were released in quite a lot of scholarly journals, together with Journal of Pastoral Theology, baby Development, and American magazine of group Psychology.