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Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage
Contributor(s): Stewart, Dianne M. (Author)
ISBN: 1580058183     ISBN-13: 9781580058186
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
OUR PRICE:   $27.00  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships
Dewey: 973.049
LCCN: 2019052810
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.9" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 336 pages
 
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In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black companionship.
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 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.