Beschreibung:
This book focuses on the communication that sustains Black marriage. Using original data and secondary research, Marianne Dainton provides the story of Black marriage success and the contexts and communication that contribute to that success.
Maintaining Black Marriage: Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics moves beyond the usual demographics in the study of Black marriage to focus on the communication that sustains it. Using original data and secondary research, Marianne Dainton provides the story of Black marriage success and the contexts and communication that contribute to that success. A central feature of this book is the inclusion of Black voices; that is, in addition to original quantitative research on the topic, qualitative data draws on the experiences and opinions of a group of married Black women and married Black men in order to augment, explain, challenge, and reflect the scholarly literature.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Issues in Research on Black Marriage
Chapter 2: Structural Factors Influencing the Success of Black Marriage
Chapter 3: Behaviors that Maintain Marriage
Chapter 4: The Intersection of Race and Sex in Marital Maintenance
Chapter 5: The Role of Religion in Maintaining Black Marriage
Chapter 6: Conclusions, Limitations, and Future Directions
Appendix A: The Quantitative Study
Appendix B: The Qualitative Study
References
About the Author