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11 Mich. J. Race & L. 115 (2005-2006)
African American Intimacy: The Racial Gap in Marriage

handle is hein.journals/mjrl11 and id is 125 raw text is: AFRICAN AMERICAN INTIMACY: THE RACIAL GAP IN MARRIAGE R. Richard Banks* Su Jin Gatlin** IN TR O D U C T IO N ........................................................................ 115 PART I: THE COMPONENTS OF THE MARRIAGE GAP ............................... 118 A . First M arriage ......................................................... 119 B . D ivorce ................................................................. 120 C . R em arriage ............................................................ 123 PART 11: MARRIAGE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN .............................. 123 A. The Marriage Gap among Men ................................... 124 B. The Marriageable Male Explanation ............................. 125 C. Two Sexual Bargaining Models .................................... 126 1. The Sex Ratio Theory ....................................... 127 2. The Sexual Matching Approach .......................... 128 PART III: INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE AND THE BARGAINING IMBALANCE ..... 129 C O N C LU SIO N ............................................................................. 132 INTRODUCTION During the past half century, marriage has become a less universal and less stable family form.2 Marriage rates have declined, divorce rates have risen and, consequently, single parent families have become more common. * Professor of Law and Justin M. Roach Jr. Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School; J.D. Harvard Law School, 1994; A.B./A.M. Stanford University, 1987. For helpful com- ments on a prior version of this essay, the authors thank Jennifer Eberhardt, Dorothy Brown, and Kim Forde-Mazrui. Special thanks go to the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, especially Amrita Mallik, for extraordinary patience during the extensive revision of this essay. ** Ph.D. candidate in Administration and Policy Analysis, Stanford University School of Education; M.A. student in Economics, Stanford University. B.A. in Statistics, UC Berkeley, 2002. 1. The 1950s is often regarded as the golden age of marriage, when people mar- ried earlier and had more children than in other historical periods. See generally ANDRw CHERLIN, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, AND REMARRIAGE (1992). 2. Larry L. Bumpass, What's Happening to the Family? Interactions Between Demo- graphic and Institutional Change, 27 DEMOGRAPHY 483 (1990); Andrew Cherlin, The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage, 66 J. MARRIAGE & FAm., 848 (2004); Stephanie Coontz, The World Historical Transformation of Marriage, 66 J. MARRIAGE & FAM. 974 (2004). 3. R. Kelly Raley & Larry Bumpass, The Topography of the Divorce Plateau: Levels and Trends in Union Stability in the United States After 1980, 8 DEMOGRAPHIC RES. 245 (2003) (discussing changes in divorce rates), available at http://www.demographic-research.org.

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