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Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage
by Dianne M. Stewart

    Publication Date: Oct 06, 2020
    List Price: $30.00
    Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9781580058186
    Imprint: Seal Press
    Publisher: Seal Press
    Parent Company: Seal Press

    Description of Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage by Dianne M. Stewart

    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.



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