Veil and vow : marriage matters in contemporary African American culture / Aneeka Ayanna Henderson.

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Gender & American culture.
Main Author: Henderson, Aneeka A. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
African Americans > Marriage > History.
Marriage > Government policy > United States > History.
Income distribution > United States > History.
African American families > History.
African American families.
African Americans > Marriage.
Income distribution.
Marriage > Government policy.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:220 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Invocation
  • Marrying the movement
  • Marrying up
  • Marrying Black
  • Monstrous marriage
  • Viewer, I married him
  • Benediction.