#blacklove

Tapo Chimbganda is independent scholar and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Black Love in the Three Registers Tapo ChimbgandaChapter Two: The Black Man’s Search for GodCarissa McCrayChapter Three: Black British Women, Love, and the Politics of ChoiceJade BennChapter Four: Emotional Storms and Black IntimaciesMichael BaughChapter Five: “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”—A Piece for the BrothasEvelyn AmponsahChapter Six: No Longer “Obsolete” and “Dangerous,” but Still Single: Black Masculinity and Marriage in African American Film at the Dawn of the 21st CenturyRiché Richardson Chapter Seven: The Aftermath of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: The Real Dilemma for African-American Women in Finding the Love They WantDale WilliamsChapter Eight: Mental Health and Interpersonal Relationships: A Personal EssayKaren McMeoChapter Nine: Between an African American and a Trinidadian: An Autoethnography of Race, Identity, and LoveRenata Ferdinand

Fierce, bold, and honest, #blacklove: The Intricacies and Intimacies of Romantic Love in Black Relationships explores interior complexities of love contextualized in the lives of black women and men whose most imitate relations are beset by everyday vicissitudes of micro- and macro-racial aggressions. Grounded in psychoanalytic theory as much as channeling James Baldwin’s visionary writings, #blacklove reminds us that eros and its entanglements neither begin nor end in singular overdeterminations of past or present forms of oppression. These rigorously thoughtful case studies will, collectively, make a lasting contribution to practices of family and marriage counseling and psychoanalytic education, as well as generate fresh debates on the anatomy of black love and its futurity.