Veil and VowPub Date : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0005
A. Henderson
{"title":"Monstrous Marriage","authors":"A. Henderson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explicates Sapphire's novel 1996 Push, alongside the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, Farrakhan's 1993 book Torchlight for America, and Sweet Honey in the Rock's 1983 song Testimony in order to unmask the political burden placed on African American marriage and Black love. It illustrates the ways in which touting marriage and heteropatriarchal family as a political responsibility enables intimate partner violence or domestic abuse.","PeriodicalId":352501,"journal":{"name":"Veil and Vow","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116030822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Veil and VowPub Date : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0004
A. Henderson
{"title":"Marrying Black","authors":"A. Henderson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a close reading of black/white interracial romance in Sandra Kitt's The Color of Love (1995) and Eric Jerome Dickey's Milk in My Coffee (1998) alongside Michael Jackson's 1991 song \"Black or White\" and Me'Shell NdegeOcello's 1993 ballad \"Soul on Ice.\" This chapter uncovers how black/white interracial romance is proffered as a postracial antidote to white supremacy and antiblack racism.","PeriodicalId":352501,"journal":{"name":"Veil and Vow","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114936644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Veil and VowPub Date : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0003
A. Henderson
{"title":"Marrying Up","authors":"A. Henderson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Against the backdrop of President Bill Clinton's 1994 Crime Bill, this chapter interrogates hypergamy or marrying up and the figure of the gold digger in urban fiction novels/street literature such as Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) , Omar Tyree's Flyy Girl, (1997) and Teri Woods' True to the Game (1998) alongside hip hop lyrics by Public Enemy. This portion of the book establishes how these influential texts champion patriarchal control as they highlight the relationship between state violence and intimate partner violence.","PeriodicalId":352501,"journal":{"name":"Veil and Vow","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133972092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}