Is Marriage for White People?
How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
$35.40
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2012
Summary
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 the poor. Black men, particularly the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780452297531 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0452297532 |
| Author: | Ralph Richard Banks |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | New American Library |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 132mm x 201mm |
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Ralph Richard Banks
Ralph Richard Banks is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He has taught about marriage, race, discrimination, and inequality there since 1998. His writings have appeared in academic journals such as the Stanford Law Review and the Yale Law Journal, as well as in popular publications such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He lives in Palo Alto.
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