African American youth have responded with hope and action to protect their well-being in violent political, economic, and social conditions, through organizing. While contemporary organizing frameworks prioritize self-care to promote sustainability, there is little research on the meaning and definition of self-care for African American youth organizers, in their own words. In this paper, findings from interviews with 20 Black youths in navigating organizing spaces in New York City will be presented, highlighting how they destabilize the narrowness of commonly defined self-care to embody “collective-self” care strategies. Implications for community practice, recovery from systemic violence, and historical trauma among African Americans will be explored.

非裔美国人的年轻人以希望和行动作出了回应，希望通过组织起来在暴力的政治，经济和社会条件下保护自己的福祉。尽管当代的组织框架优先考虑自我保健以促进可持续性，但是用非裔美国人的青年组织者的话，关于自我保健的意义和定义的研究很少。在本文中，将介绍在纽约市的组织空间中对20名黑人青年的采访，并强调他们如何破坏通常定义的自我护理的狭窄性，以体现“集体自我”护理策略。将探讨非洲裔美国人对社区实践，从系统暴力中恢复以及历史创伤的影响。