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All Love Prohibited
Contributor(s): Eklof, Anders (Author)
ISBN: 1949804666     ISBN-13: 9781949804669
Publisher: Toplink Publishing, LLC
OUR PRICE:   $12.59  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 388 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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"ALL LOVE PROHIBITED" is a story of a young, idealistic foreigner who falls in love with a beautiful black woman in the tense, segregated Alabama of the early 1960s. Before arriving in the United States, he has never met a black person, and he is shaken by his instant, passionate reaction to her. His attempts to meet her and win her love becomes a dangerous struggle against laws, prejudices, and fanatical, violence-prone guardians of racial separation. His increasingly desperate struggle stirs emotions he has never experienced before: obsessive passion, terror, and hatred of all that stands in his way.

The story is a grim reminder of the era, not so long ago, when love across the color line was illegal in Southern states and could have lethal consequences if it was discovered.

Contributor Bio(s): Eklof, Anders: - The author, Anders Eklof, was born and raised in Sweden, a very liberal society which had, at the time, a very homogenous population. Racial, religious, or economic class tensions did not exist there. Racial segregation and oppression were seen as morally unacceptable, and there existed in the population a strong sense of sympathy for the contemporary movements in the United States and South Africa to overturn segregation and apartheid. Anders arrived in the United States in 1961. An incident in a cafeteria in Alabama gave him his first personal observation of Southern white disrespect for black people. The incident laid the foundation for his lifelong feeling of solidarity with America's black population. His first marriage was to an African-American woman, with whom he has two children. His second marriage is to an African woman with whom he also has two children.