Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone, (Paperback)

from diovival

Where to begin? I feel the title is mismatched with the content of the book. The author acknowledges as much in his afterword."I cannot overstate the significance of the interviews in the evolution of this project. My conversations with black women transformed my vision for this book, as did thei...

from sunshine608

Overall this book is pretty depressing for an African American women to read, whether married or single. All we heard from were single and divorced women. No notes from married women and especially married men or even single men. I'm also not sure how I feel about the conclusion, that the solut...

from bezoar44

Far from being an analysis of how the decline of black marriage affects 'everyone', this book asks a much narrower question: why middle- and upper middle-class black women have a much lower rate of marriage than white women of the same ages. At 189 double-spaced pages of text (the rest is scholar...

from LheaJLove

Every black man I know hates this discussion. My father tells me, "It doesn't matter if all black men are 'dogs'.' How many do you need? You only need one man. You can't tell me of all the men in the world there is not one." As a child, I heard him say this to every single woman in my family. As ...

from LheaJLove

Every black man I know hates this discussion. My father tells me, "It doesn't matter if all black men are 'dogs'.' How many do you need? You only need one man. You can't tell me of all the men in the world there is not one." As a child, I heard him say this to every single woman in my family. As ...