Books
Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage
In this analysis of social history, Dianne Stewart examines the complex lineage of America’s oppression of Black companionship.
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.
Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience
Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements.
This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation.
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa: Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination
Use coupon code E22OBEAH for a 30% discount when ordering both Volume I and Volume II as a single purchase at Duke University Press.
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense.