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Explain It to Me
The Intersecting Policies and the Destruction of Black Family Life
This chapter discusses how the legacy of slavery continues to affect black families today through various intersecting policies. It highlights how government housing projects, mass incarceration, and welfare regulations all reinforce each other to ultimately destroy black family life. The chapter specifically focuses on the strict regulations imposed on black women entering welfare programs in the late 1950s and 1960s, which restricted their relationships and intimacy.
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