PPN: | 510279163  |
Titel: | Veil and vow : marriage matters in contemporary African American culture / Aneeka Ayanna Henderson |
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Erschienen: | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021 |
Vertrieb: | Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages) : Illustrations (black and white, and colour). |
Serie: | Gender and American culture North Carolina scholarship online |
Anmerkung: | Previously issued in print: 2020 Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 978-1-4696-5178-1 ; 978-1-46-965176-7 |
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 : | USA Schwarze Familie Familienpolitik Partnerwahl Ehe, Motiv Kultur Literatur |
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Abstract: | Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicised 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 20th- and early 21st-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. |
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