Veil and vow : marriage matters in contemporary African American culture /
"In 'Veil and Vow', Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as ###Th...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2020.
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Series: | Gender & American culture.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | "In 'Veil and Vow', Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as ###The Best Man#. Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of marriage as "good" or "bad" for African Americans, Henderson critically examines popular and influential late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts alongside legislation such as the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and the Welfare Reform Act, which masked true sources of inequality with crisis-laden myths about African American family formation. Providing a new opportunity to grapple with old questions, including who can be a citizen, a "wife," and "marriageable," 'Veil and Vow' makes clear just how deeply marriage still matters in African American culture"-- |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781469651781 1469651785 |