{"product_id":"book-ds4y","title":"Black Women, Black Love","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black companionship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAccording to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried. \u003ci\u003eBlack Women, Black Love \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDianne Stewart begins in the colonial era, when slave owners denied Blacks the right to marry, divided families, and, in many cases, raped enslaved women and girls. Later, during Reconstruction and the ensuing decades, violence split up couples again as millions embarked on the Great Migration north, where the welfare system mandated that women remain single in order to receive government support. And no institution has forbidden Black love as effectively as the prison-industrial complex, which removes Black men en masse from the pool of marriageable partners.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eProdigiously researched and deeply felt, \u003ci\u003eBlack Women, Black Love \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how white supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America, and it proposes strategies for dismantling the structural forces that have plagued Black love and marriage for centuries.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349018059056,"sku":"BDds4y","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/529473-ds4y-Square.jpg?v=1734238929","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ds4y","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}