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Black Woman's Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction
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$65.99
Publication Date: May 9th, 2011
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9780230113169
Pages:
227
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Description
Black Woman's Burden examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States through methods of exploitation, control, repression, and coercion. The myth of the "angry Black woman" has been built over generations through clever rhetoric and oppressive social policy. Here, Rousseau explores the continued impact of labeling and stereotyping on the development of policies that lead to the construction of national, racial, and gender identities for Black women.
About the Author
NICOLE ROUSSEAU is assistant professor in the department of Sociology at Kent State University, USA.