More explanation I would add to the
“What’s love got to do with it?” article is that women are wanting to become
more educated now a days since it is easier then it was about 100 years ago.
Due to this, women want to finish their education before finding a partner and
starting a family. Also there has been an increase in promoting the education
of girls at a young age. So because of this many women are taking the
opportunity that is being presented.
In the “Successful women who are
childless” article states that only 29% of African Americans between the age of
28-55 years old and earn over $55,000 a year get married. Within the article
Cornel West explains the increasing gap of African American male to female
ratio. In 1970 the gender ratio was almost even but as of today it is as big as
9-1 females. In the past African American families were known to be strong.
This is because of past history going back to the time of slavery.
“Annihilation through integration”
can be defined as the culture and economic resources being weakened within he
Black community. This is related to the Black marriageability index today
because there has been a decreasing amount of marriage between an African
American male and female. Within the article, it calls for an increase of Black
males and females to marry. This will then decrease the “annihilation through
integration” and increasing the culture and economics.
As I am all for an increase of
African American marriages, I also believe that you should not limit your
choices to just your own ethnicity or race. In our generation today I like to
think we are more open to being with other races or ethnicities. So it is hard
to know if there will be an increase in Black marriages or not.
You are very right Alisa,I think change as made a huge impact with our society when it comes with marriages and education. Personally I do not see anything wrong between marrying people with other ethnicity.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that we, as a society, should not limit our choices of potential partners to our own race or ethnicity. The way I have perceived what we've been discussing in class and reading through these articles is that the future for African Americans and African American families will only get better if there is an increase of marriages between Black females and Black males.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for loving different races,but I might also add that it's a sad thing when black men are unable to embrace their own culture, or women can't embrace their own culture. African Americans seem to be the only race that this affects the most.
ReplyDeleteHi Alisa! I agree with you here.
ReplyDeleteMore educational opportunity for women has definitely contributed to the fact that African American women tend to get married later in life.
Ethnicity and race proves to be a limiting factor as far as marriageability is concerned. Our society has advanced to a point that there are people of all colors within every socioeconomic status, so economic homogamy should play a greater factor in compatibility than race. I think younger people especially focus more on similarities between races than they do differences. We have focused a lot on what we are calling the "destruction" of the black family, but I think it would be interesting to look at ways to better embrace a new multi-cultural American family, because even if every black man in America married a black woman, there would still be 10% black women single. We should teach methods on finding healthy ways to blend traditional values, customs, and culture instead of teaching that cultural homogamy is the key to a happy marriage when in reality it is not.