#blacklove: The Intricacies and Intimacies of Romantic Love in Black Relationships

by Tapo Chimbganda (Editor), Tapo Chimbganda (Contribution by), Carissa McCray (Contribution by), Jade Benn (Contribution by), Michael Baugh (Contribution by)

Overview

#blacklove explores the intricate and intimate relationship dynamic, arising out of a violent and challenging past, between the Black woman and Black man. The contributors in this volume resist the idea of black love in reference to whiteness by exposing the hidden toxicities that come with a focus on whiteness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793613844
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	04/13/2023
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.07(w) x 8.74(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Tapo Chimbganda is independent scholar and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Chapter One: Black Love in the Three Registers Tapo Chimbganda Chapter Two: The Black Man’s Search for God Carissa McCray Chapter Three: Black British Women, Love, and the Politics of Choice Jade Benn Chapter Four: Emotional Storms and Black Intimacies Michael Baugh Chapter Five: “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”—A Piece for the Brothas Evelyn Amponsah Chapter Six: No Longer “Obsolete” and “Dangerous,” but Still Single: Black Masculinity and Marriage in African American Film at the Dawn of the 21st Century Riché Richardson Chapter Seven: The Aftermath of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: The Real Dilemma for African-American Women in Finding the Love They Want Dale Williams Chapter Eight: Mental Health and Interpersonal Relationships: A Personal Essay Karen McMeo Chapter Nine: Between an African American and a Trinidadian: An Autoethnography of Race, Identity, and Love Renata Ferdinand

Editorial Reviews

Fierce, bold, and honest, #blacklove: The Intricacies and Intimacies of Romantic Love in Black Relationships explores interior complexities of love contextualized in the lives of black women and men whose most imitate relations are beset by everyday vicissitudes of micro- and macro-racial aggressions. Grounded in psychoanalytic theory as much as channeling James Baldwin’s visionary writings, #blacklove reminds us that eros and its entanglements neither begin nor end in singular overdeterminations of past or present forms of oppression. These rigorously thoughtful case studies will, collectively, make a lasting contribution to practices of family and marriage counseling and psychoanalytic education, as well as generate fresh debates on the anatomy of black love and its futurity.

Warren Crichlow