#blacklove - by Tapo Chimbganda (Paperback)

About the Book

#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 ...

Book Synopsis

#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.

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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.

About the Author

Tapo Chimbganda is independent scholar and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.