Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone by Ralph Richard Banks

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

Ralph Richard Banks

304 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 times as likely as white women to never marry. ...

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