Is Healthy Black Marriage A Thing? Ep. 19

Y'all know Black Americans were MORE married than white folks for 70 years until the 1960s? Yeah. Me either, until I went looking. This week we're talking about what actually happened to Black marriage, why the gender war is engagement-farmed erasure, what healthy Black partnership actually looks like (it's NOT submission), and why "Spend My Life With You" by Tamia and Eric Benet is the assignment for the week.

Links:

The Grown & Liberated Love Club Application - https://candiceharperlovecoach.com/grown-liberated-love

Hack the Dating Apps - https://candiceharperlovecoach.com/hack-the-dating-apps2

Them Music Arranged by Wes Kilgore

EPISODE NOTES

Research Citations:

• U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 American Community Survey (released September 2024).

Marriage statistics by race/ethnicity.

• U.S. Census Bureau, "Marriage Prevalence for Black Adults Varies by State" (2022).

• National Center for Family & Marriage Research, "Marriage: More than a Century of

Change, 1900-2022" (Bowling Green State University, 2024).

• Raley, R.K., Sweeney, M.M., & Wondra, D. "The Growing Racial and Ethnic Divide in

U.S. Marriage Patterns." Future of Children, 25(2), 89-109. UCLA, 2015.

• Harknett, K. & McLanahan, S. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marriage After the Birth

of a Child." American Sociological Review (multiple years).

• hooks, b. "All About Love: New Visions" (William Morrow, 1999).

• hooks, b. "We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity" (Routledge, 2004).

• hooks, b. "Salvation: Black People and Love" (Atria, 2001).

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Is Healthy Black Marriage A Thing? Ep. 19

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