Black Woman’s Burden

Written By Nicole Rousseau, PhD

Black Woman's Burden examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States through methods of exploitation, control, repression, and coercion. Black Woman's Burden examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States through methods of exploitation, control, repression, and coercion. The myth of the "angry Black woman" has been built over generations through clever rhetoric and oppressive social policy. Here, Rousseau explores the continued impact of labeling and stereotyping on the development of policies that lead to the construction of national, racial, and gender identities for Black women. PURCHASE THE BOOK HERE

Nicole Rousseau, PhD

Dr. Nicole Rousseau is a historical sociologist whose work examines how social rhetoric, media, and institutional structures shape identity, power, and lived experience.

She is the author of Black Woman’s Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction and has published extensively on Black feminist thought, historical womanist theory, and structural inequality.

Dr. Rousseau has led research initiatives, taught at the university level, and worked with organizations to translate sociological insight into program strategy and institutional change.

She is also the host of The Architecture of Meaning, a podcast extending her research into a public-facing exploration of narrative, media, and power.

https://nicolerousseauphd.com
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