Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments / M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
Introduction
Section One. Sociological and Historical Context
Chapter 1. Trends in African American Family Formation: A Theoretical and Statistical Overview / M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
Chapter 2. Black Family Structure in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia: Amending the Revisionist Perspective / Brenda E. Stevenson
Section Two. Sociological Antecedents of African American Marital Patterns
Chapter 3. The Effects of Employment on Marriage Among Black Males in Inner-City Chicago / Mark Testa and Marilyn Krogh
Commentary / Sheldon Danziger
Chapter 4. The Widening Gap Between Black and White Marriage Rates: Context and Implications / Robert Schoen
Commentary / David M. Heer
Chapter 5. Mate Availability and Marriage Among African Americans: Aggregate- and Individual-Level Analyses / K. Jill Kiecoly and Mark A. Fossett
Commentary / A. Wade Smith
Section Three. Consquences and Correlates of African American Marital Decline
Chapter 6. Marital Behavior and Expectations: Ethnic Comparisons of Attitudinal and Structural Correlates / M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
Commentary / James S. Jackson
Chapter 7. Martial Instability Among Black and White Couples in Early Marriage / Shirley Hatchett, Joseph Veroff, and Elizabeth Douvan
Commentary / Hector F. Myers
Chapter 8. Unemployment and Imbalanced Sex Ratios: Race-Specific Consquences for Family Structure and Crime / Robert J. Sampson
Commentary / Melvin L. Oliver
Section Four. Public Policy and African American Family Formation
Chapter 9. Family Structure and the Marginalization of Black Men: Policy Implications / William A. Darity, Jr., and Samuel L. Meyers, Jr.
Commentary / Phillip J. Bowman
Chapter 10. Policy Implications of a Decline in Marriage Among African Americans / Lynn C. Burbridge
Chapter 11. African American Marital Trends in Context: Toward a Synthesis / M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
Index