| Description |
1 online resource (220 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Series |
Gender and american culture |
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Gender & American culture.
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| Contents |
Invocation -- Marrying the movement -- Marrying up -- Marrying Black -- Monstrous marriage -- Viewer, I married him -- Benediction |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Marriage -- History
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Marriage -- Government policy -- United States -- History
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Income distribution -- United States -- History
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African American families -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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African American families
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African Americans -- Marriage
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Income distribution
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Marriage -- Government policy
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469651781 |
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1469651785 |
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