In Veil and Vow , Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American Marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man .
Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of Marriage as "good" or "bad" for African Americans, Henderson critically examines popular and influential late twentieth- and early twenty-first-cen.
In Veil and Vow , Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American Marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man