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Romantic Unions in an Era of Uncertainty: A Post-Moynihan Perspective on African American Women and Marriage

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  • Linda M. Burton

    (Duke University)

  • M. Belinda Tucker

    (University of California, Los Angeles)

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This article provides a brief overview of how African American women are situated in and around the thesis of the Moynihan Report. The authors take the lens of uncertainty and apply it to a post-Moynihan discussion of African American women and marriage. They discuss uncertainty in the temporal organization of poor women's lives and in the new terrains of gender relationships and how both influence African American women's thoughts and behaviors in their romantic relationships and marriages. They argue that much is to be learned from by focusing the lens in this way. It allows us to look at the contemporary romantic relationship and marriage behaviors of African American women in context and in ways that do not label them as having pathological behaviors that place them out of sync with broader societal trends.

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  • Linda M. Burton & M. Belinda Tucker, 2009. "Romantic Unions in an Era of Uncertainty: A Post-Moynihan Perspective on African American Women and Marriage," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 621(1), pages 132-148, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:621:y:2009:i:1:p:132-148
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716208324852
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    1. Irma Elo, 2001. "New african American life tables from 1935–1940 to 1985–1990," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 38(1), pages 97-114, February.
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