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  • 4 - The Rise of Never-Married Black Singles

  • Kris Marsh, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Book:
    The Love Jones Cohort
    Published online:
    02 February 2023
    Print publication:
    09 February 2023, pp 52-72

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 argues that marriage as a social institution is changing in the United States. One consequence of this is the rise of Black never-married singles as a demographic and those who are also middle class : the Love Jones Cohort. Through the narratives of the Love Jones Cohort and discussion of the various theoretical assumptions that have been put forward to explain declining marriage rates among Black Americans – especially women – Chapter 4 introduces a framework for understanding how and why the Cohort has begun stepping into the limelight, and what the implications of this might be. This chapter also sets out some of the quantitative and theoretical rationalizations that have been put forward or may be relevant in explaining the rise of Black middle-class SALAs in the U.S., backed up by relevant narratives from interviewed members of the Love Jones Cohort.

  • “SOME ASIAN MEN ARE ATTRACTIVE TO ME, BUT FOR A HUSBAND …”: Korean Adoptees and the Salience of Race in Romance

  • Jiannbin Lee Shiao, Mia H. Tuan
  • Journal:
    Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race / Volume 5 / Issue 2 / Fall 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 December 2008, pp. 259-285

  • Two indicators of race relations in the United States are interracial marriage and transracial adoption. We examine the salience of race in the romantic involvements of Korean adoptees, and we argue that mainstream racial discourses influence romantic preferences across variations in personal experience, local demographics, and social distance. Applying a dating-history approach to a probability sample of semistructured interviews with fifty-eight adult Korean adoptees, we demonstrate how racial discourses influence romantic preferences by shaping adoptees' interpretations of their romantic involvements across a range of structural conditions, and we also identify specific conditions that limit their salience. In brief, we introduce a conception of romantic preference that bridges the existing constructs in the qualitative and the quantitative literatures on interracial marriage.