Something Old, Something New: Black Women, Interracial Dating, and the Black Marriage Crisis

Romano, Renee

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“…And while this may seem like an easy fix to a systemic issue, social science research underscores the challenges Black women encounter with obtaining interracial marriages (Childs, 2005;Lin & Lundquist, 2013;Romano, 2018). For instance, on many web-based dating platforms, Black women receive the least number of responses from non-Black men for dates (Lin & Lundquist, 2013).…”

Section: Black American Marriages In An Era Of Racial Neoliberalismmentioning

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Marriage matters for Black middle‐class women: A review of Black American marriages, work, and family life

Council

2021

Sociology Compass

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It is well documented that Black women tend to experience lower marriage participation than non-Black women because of the marriage squeeze, including an unequal sex-ratio within age cohorts, and the increase in economic precarity among Black men. The experience of the marriage squeeze impacts poor, and college educated Black women, but this is only one viewpoint. Drawing on work and family research at the intersection of racial identity, gender, and class, I argue that marriage provides Black middle-class women access to privileges and resources like safety and kin networks within a U.S. nation-state constrained by racism and sexism. By relying on marriage, Black middle-class women can realize personal and familial desires, as well as encounter patriarchal oppression. I end this review with a discussion on future directions for research in this area, and a discussion on imagined futures for Black women that incorporates self-love and self-actualization.

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Section: Black American Marriages In An Era Of Racial Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marriage matters for Black middle‐class women: A review of Black American marriages, work, and family life

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2021

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Race, Place, and Relationship Formation in the Digital Age

Adeyinka-Skold

2020

Du Bois Rev.

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Despite the increased use of dating technology for finding and forming romantic relationships, location remains relevant for relationship formation. While current research on relationship formation attends to the ratio of marriageable men to women, marital attitudes, and gendered racial exclusion, this research does not always consider a nuanced look at how location can also constrain opportunities to make short- or long-term romantic connections. Drawing on interviews with 111 Asian, White, Black, and Latina heterosexual college-educated women between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-three, I find that regardless of race/ethnicity, women observe that some places provide limited opportunities to meet men and that the mismatch between their dating norms, beliefs, and/or expectations for relationships and the location where they reside make their search more difficult. Women of color additionally note that some locations provide fewer opportunities for same-race and/or interracial dating than others. I also find that women of color are more likely to employ strategies to address their locational barriers than White women. Therefore, I argue that not only does location continue to matter for forming romantic connections in the digital age, but that location and race also intersect to create unique locational barriers for women of color. This intersection, consequently, demonstrates that the opportunities for relationship formation remain stratified despite the rise of dating technology.

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“Come back home, sista!”: reactions to Black women in interracial relationships with white men

Gonlin

2023

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Something Old, Something New: Black Women, Interracial Dating, and the Black Marriage Crisis

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Marriage matters for Black middle‐class women: A review of Black American marriages, work, and family life

Marriage matters for Black middle‐class women: A review of Black American marriages, work, and family life

Race, Place, and Relationship Formation in the Digital Age

“Come back home, sista!”: reactions to Black women in interracial relationships with white men

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