‘Controversy’ is code for raising hell.
A provocative new book suggests black women would benefit both themselves and the black race if they crossed class lines less and race lines more.
In his just-published book, Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone, Stanford University law professor Ralph Richard Banks says black women are more than three times as likely as white women never to marry. And when they do marry, they are more likely than any other group of women to marry a man who is less educated or earns less than they do.
Banks also says that African-Americans have become the most unmarried people in the US.
“We are the least likely to marry and the most likely to divorce; we maintain fewer committed and enduring relationships than any other group,” he writes. “Not since slavery have black men and women been as unpartnered as we are now. Although the African-American marriage decline is especially pronounced among the poor, it is apparent as well among the affluent: doctors, lawyers, corporate professionals.”
The book also confronts some uncomfortable truths about relationships between black men and women.
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