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Black Women, Black Love
Dianne M Stewart
其他書名
America's War on African American Marriage
出版
Hachette UK
, 2020-10-06
主題
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Family & Relationships / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships
Family & Relationships / Love & Romance
Social Science / Minority Studies
ISBN
1580058167
9781580058162
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RWHODwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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A “powerful, persuasive, and devastatingly haunting” examination of America’s racist, centuries-long oppression of Black love (Carol Anderson, bestselling author of
White Rage
)
According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried.
Black Women, Black Love
reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis.
Dianne M. Stewart begins in the colonial era, when slave owners denied Blacks the right to marry, divided families, and, in many cases, raped enslaved women and girls. Later, during Reconstruction and the ensuing decades, violence split up couples again as millions embarked on the Great Migration north, where the welfare system mandated that women remain single in order to receive government support. And no institution has forbidden Black love as effectively as the prison-industrial complex, which removes Black men en masse from the pool of marriageable partners.
Prodigiously researched and deeply felt,
Black Women, Black Love
reveals how white supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America, and it proposes strategies for dismantling the structural forces that have plagued Black love and marriage for centuries.