She likens the black woman to a “fire-breathing dragon” and a “wild savage boar.” If the black family is to survive, says Shahrazad Ali, the black woman must be “tamed” by the black man. Ali is the ...

Shahrazad Ali’s “Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman” was like a stink bomb lobbed into the uncomfortable and cramped arena of male-female relationships. And small wonder. Billed as an ...

THE BOOK by Shahrazad Ali, A Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman, which advises men to “tame” women with a “sound open-handed slap in the mouth,” elicited many feelings and emotions from ...

Shahrazad Ali, author of a controversial 1990 book, “Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman,” has written a new one, designed to help blacks determine whether they have freed themselves from ...