Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage

A “powerful, persuasive, and devastatingly haunting” examination of America’s racist, centuries-long oppression of Black love (Carol Anderson, bestselling author of White Rage)

According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis.

Dianne M. Stewart begins in the colonial era, when slave owners denied Blacks the right to marry, divided fami...