Professor Rhonda Gray
rgray@rcc.mass.edu
Office 3-332
Roxbury Community College
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These books are available to RCC students through Ebook Central and EBSCOhost.
Dixon, Patricia. “Marriage Among African Americans: What Does the Research Reveal?” Journal of African American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, Mar. 2009, pp. 29–46. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s12111-008-9062-5.
Hill, Shirley A. “Marriage among African American Women: A Gender Perspective.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 421–440. EBSCOhost, doi:10.3138/jcfs.37.3.421.
Lovelace, Vanessa. “Toward a Model of Mutual Relationship in African American Marriages.” Mutuality, vol. 23, no. 2, Summer 2016, pp. 21–23. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=116282755&site=ehost-live.
Smith, Earl. “African American Men and Intimate Partner Violence.” Journal of African American Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 156–179. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s12111-008-9039-4.
Vil, Noelle M.St., et al. “Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, the Patriarchal Nuclear Family Structure, and African American Male–Female Relationships.” Social Work, vol. 64, no. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 139–146. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1093/sw/swz002.
Alexander, Brian. "Marriage Eludes High-Achieving Black Women." NBC News, 13 Aug. 2009, https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32379727#.W65ENNdKiM8
Cooper, Brittney. "All the Single Ladies: Thoughts on the Black Marriage Dilemma." HuffPost, 18 Mar. 2010, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/all-the-single-ladies-tho_b_420262
Harris, Tamara Winfrey. "The Assumptions Behind the 'Black Marriage Crisis'." The Guardian, 27 Jan. 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/27/assumptions-behind-black-marriage-crisis