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The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family

Cosmopod

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Black Women's Exclusion from the American Ideal of Womanhood and the Destruction of Black Kinship

This chapter explores how black women have been excluded from the American ideal of womanhood since slavery, highlighting the disruption of black kinship and the commodification of their children. It also discusses the continued destruction of black families even after the abolition of slavery.

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