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

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Henderson, Aneeka A [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Gender & American culturePublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (220 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469651781
1469651785

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Veil and vow.DDC classification:

306.85/08996073 23

LOC classification:

E185.86 .H4625 2020eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

Invocation -- Marrying the movement -- Marrying up -- Marrying Black -- Monstrous marriage -- Viewer, I married him -- Benediction.

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