Thread by @blackrepublican

The Impact of White Supremacy on The Black Family

"This pattern disrupted slave families. The institution of New World slavery damaged and injured and weakened the Afro-American family."

crab.rutgers.edu/~glasker/ORLAN…

How Slavery Affected
African American Families

Heather Andrea Williams
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Enslaved people could not legally marry in any American colony or state. Colonial and state laws considered them property and commodities, not legal persons who

... .... could enter into contracts, and marriage was, and is, very much a legal contract."

"Reading along the bias grain was also to push the concept of reading against the grain a little further—from reading “between the lines” to reading what is not between the lines at all."

"Yet you cannot neglect slavery's effects on the black family as a critical component of African- American life.”

Professor Orlando Patterson

harvardmagazine.com/2014/11/the-ca…

"Reading along the bias grain was also to push the concept of reading against the grain a little further—from reading “between the lines” to reading what is not between the lines at all."

Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century

Legacies of Slavery in American Life - Professor Glenn Loury

Individual Acts of RACISM Have Social Consequences.

"Individuals create systems, systems create context and context create variables that require more than personal responsibility."

The Transatlantic Slave Trade wasn't just a byproduct of some sinful individuals, not taking personal responsibility. It was an entire system based on one consensus: Black Lives Don't Matter

That was the consensus of the majority of white citizens of America.

The Black Family? Are we talking about a conglomerate of multiple African tribes (all with dissimilar histories, religions" etc) dropped in a white supremacist nightmare; fighting to survive, and out of all that evil -- new family units emerge to compensate for what was deprived?

""The conjugal family unit tends to assume precedence in western (European) societies. In fact, in African
societies the stability of the extended family is not
dependent upon the stability of the specific conjugal
groups within it."

jstor.org/stable/2784319

"The preoccupation of scholars of family organization with the nuclear family does not derive from its universality or its structural primacy, but rather from the value placed upon it in Western societies. African families were NOT centered around conjugal unions."

""The most important difference between the African family
and the Western family is that in African societies the
conjugal family (the African counterpart of the nuclear
family) is subordinate to the consanguineous kinship group."

Source: The Impact of Family Structure Variations Among Black Families. - Census Bureau