For the Wednesday, June 16 edition of Africa400, show hosts Mama Tomiko and Baba Ty discuss the topic “Black Love is a Revolutionary Act” with Special Guests Professors Armon R. Perry and Dianne M. Stewart.
Armon R. Perry holds a Ph.D., a master’s degree in social work, and serves as a professor at the University of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work. He is a devoted father, a loving husband and a supportive friend. He’s also a Black man, who knows that despite all of his accomplishments, much of society still sees him as a lazy, deadbeat dad, he says.
Drawing not only from his personal experience, but from that of nearly 200 Black men in the United States, Dr. Perry wrote a book that takes a look at Black men, their relationships, and the external factors that influence men’s involvement in the lives of their children and families. Black Love Matters, published in October of 2020, follows a group of men for four years and chronicles the experiences and circumstances that shape their relationships.
Dianne M. Stewart is an associate professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University specializing in African heritage religious cultures in the Caribbean and the Americas and womanist religious thought and praxis.
She is the author of Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience (Oxford University Press, 2005), Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage (Seal Press, 2020) and Obeah, Orisa and Religious Identity in Trinidad: Africana Nations and The Power of Black Sacred Imagination – Orisa, Volume II (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2022).
Stewart’s Black Women, Black Love is her first public-facing book. Expanding her contributions to the field of African American Studies, and inspired by her pedagogical investment in Black love studies and her courses, “Black Love,” “The Power of Black Self-Love,” (co-taught with Professor Dona Troka) and “Black Women, Black Love and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Stewart spent a number of years researching and writing Black Women, Black Love. Intended to reach wide academic and public audiences, the book examines the structural forces that, across four centuries, have made coupling and marriage difficult, delayed or impossible for millions of Black women in the United States and reveals how White supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America.
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