Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

Name: Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
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ISBN: 9780525952015

ISBN-10: 0525952012

ISBN-13: 9780525952015

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ralph Richard Banks

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A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three timesas likely as white women to never marry. That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is not confined to women or the poor. Black men, particularly the most successful and affluent, are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. College educated black women are twice as likely as their white peers never to marry. Is Marriage for White People?is the…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction



The Marriage Decline



What Has Become of Marriage?



The Man Shortage



The Market



What About the Children?



Power Wives



Mixed Marriages



Beyond Race?



Desire



Fear



Saving Black Marriage


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Partial Bibliography


Notes


Index