Ebony Musings

Ebony Musings
Ebony Musings

Welcome to Ebony Musing, a literary podcast created to provide a safe space for Black women to discover wellness, balance and self-care through literature. Join us in conversation as we dive deep into the importance of self-care, balancing our lives and how literature has played a big part in our own personal healing processes.

  1. 2022. 11. 02.

    Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne Stewart Pt. 1

    On today's episode, we discuss Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne Stewart This episode contains spoilers. Summary In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black companionship. According to the 2010 US census, more than 70 percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis. Dianne Stewart begins in the colonial era, when slave owners denied Blacks the right to marry, divided families, and, in many cases, raped enslaved women and girls. Later, during Reconstruction and the ensuing decades, violence split up couples again as millions embarked on the Great Migration north, where the welfare system mandated that women remain single in order to receive government support. And no institution has forbidden Black love as effectively as the prison-industrial complex, which removes Black men en masse from the pool of marriageable partners. Prodigiously researched and deeply felt, Black Women, Black Love reveals how white supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America, and it proposes strategies for dismantling the structural forces that have plagued Black love and marriage for centuries. Stay connected with us! Follow us on Instagram : www.instagram.com/ebonymusingspodcast BookShop: bookshop.org/shop/ebonymusingspodcast Contact: ebonymusingspodcast@gmail.com

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  2. 2022. 10. 12.

    In Search of The Color Purple by Salamishah Tillet

    On today’s episode we discuss, The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet ******This episode contains spoilers. ***** Summary Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel, showing how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist of the time. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated film and a hit Broadway musical. Through interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, and others, as well as archival research, Tillet studies Walker’s life and the origins of her subjects, including violence, sexuality, gender, and politics. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with her - as a sexual-violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic. Provocative and personal, In Search of the Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual. Stay connected with us! Follow us on Instagram: https://msha.ke/ebonymusingspodcast/ Book Shop: bookshop.org/shop/ebonymusingspodcast Contact: ebonymusingspodcast@gmail.com

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