Maintaining Black Marriage

Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics

By (author) Marianne Dainton

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Publication date:

07 April 2017

Length of book:

128 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498536141

Maintaining Black Marriage: Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics moves beyond the usual demographics in the study of Black marriage to focus on the communication that sustains it. Using original data and secondary research, Marianne Dainton provides the story of Black marriage success and the contexts and communication that contribute to that success. A central feature of this book is the inclusion of Black voices; that is, in addition to original quantitative research on the topic, qualitative data draws on the experiences and opinions of a group of married Black women and married Black men in order to augment, explain, challenge, and reflect the scholarly literature.
An honest, self-reflective, sensitive, and data-driven volume that makes an important contribution to the communication research literature about long-term relational communication among African Americans. For over two decades Professor Dainton continues to be a leading voice in this area of family communication, and her new volume represents a much-needed and most-welcomed addition. It is a must-read for those who study the intersection of family communication and ethnic culture.