Tera W. Hunter, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

The origins of U.S. mass‐market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s

“…As noted earlier, if the ideology of domesticity insisted on the Madonna/whore dichotomy for all women, Black women were interpellated by it in even more repressive ways as part of the legacy of enslavement and sexual assault. Collins and Hunter note that enslaved as well as free Black women were cast as Jezebels seducing men to satisfy their own lust and as incapable of emotional attachments to men or children, and were both denied the claim to sexual agency or chastity and the legal right to monogamous marriage, especially prior to Emancipation (Collins, 2000;Hunter, 2019). In some instances, this misogynoir shows up in the "first five" when the heroes associate sexual licentiousness or mercenary sexuality with their own Black mothers' or exes' career focus; having defaulted to the association of deviant sexuality and Black women created by white racism, they then project it onto the career-minded heroine.…”

Family Structure and Cohort Trends in Childhood Family Income Volatility

“…We argue that these processes can lead to racial disparities in both the trends and the underlying mechanisms of income volatility. First, factors such as long-lasting historical legacies of slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, and persistent racial gap in male unemployment and earnings have led to significant racial differences in the family context where children live (Bryant et al 2010;Hunter 2017;McLanahan 2009;Smock and Schwartz 2020;Wilson 1991), which may lead to racial disparities in the patterns of childhood income volatility. The trend in marital disruption between African Americans and Whites has diverged in the past three decades.…”