Maintaining black marriage:/ individual, interpersonal, and contextual dynamics./ by Marianne Dainton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dainton, Marianne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Marriage.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

xi; 115 pages ; 24cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

Summary:

Maintaining Black Marriage: Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics moves beyond the usual demographics in the study of Black marriage to focus on the communication that sustains it. Using original data and secondary research, Marianne Dainton provides the story of Black marriage success as well as the contexts and communication that contribute to that success. A central feature of this book is the inclusion of Black voices-that is, in addition to original quantitative research on the topic, qualitative data draws on the experiences and opinions of a group of married Black women and married Black men in order to augment, explain, challenge, and reflect the scholarly literature. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Issues in Research on Black Marriage 1

2 Structural Factors Influencing the Success of Black Marriage 9

3 Behaviors that Maintain Marriage 17

4 The Intersection of Race and Sex in Marital Maintenance 43

5 The Role of Religion in Maintaining Black Marriage 61

6 Conclusions, Limitations, and Future Directions 75.

ISBN:

1498536131

9781498536134

OCLC:

969380434