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

by Ralph Richard Banks

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525952012
• ISBN13: 9780525952015
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher