Black Intimacies Matter: the Role of Family Status, Gender, and Cumulative Risk on Relationship Quality Among Black Parents

Williams, Deadric T.; Simon, Laura; Cardwell, Marissa M.

doi:10.1007/s12111-019-09420-2

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“…As such, racial economic inequality reflects historical and contemporary forms of oppression and social exclusion via discriminatory processes. Racial economic inequities have far‐reaching implications for racial variations in relationship outcomes between intimate partners by accumulating and eroding a couple's ability to foster a healthy intimate union (Bryant et al, 2010 ; Williams et al, 2019 ), which, in turn, may lead to increased rates of dissolution (Pietromonaco & Overall, 2020 ). Such difficulties are likely to be exacerbated by the pandemic, as couples spend more confined time together (Boserup et al, 2020 ; Bradbury‐Jones & Isham, 2020 ).…”

Section: The Unequal Impact Of Covid‐19 Across Racialized Groupsmentioning

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Strengthening lower‐income families: Lessons learned from policy responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic

2021

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Families are navigating an unstable economy due to COVID‐19. Financial stressors have the potential to strain intimate relationships and exacerbate prior inequities across lower‐income families. Notably, the economic impact of COVID‐19 disproportionately influenced Black and Latinx families. As a response to families' economic adversity during the pandemic, the federal government initiated the CARES Act. This type of federal response to lower‐income families, however, is not new. The purpose of this paper is to contextualize and historicize previous and current efforts to mitigate the consequences of financial hardship on families by comparing the assumptions and efficacy of the Healthy Marriages Initiative and the CARES act. We conclude with four recommendations to promote well‐being in lower‐income families: (1) acknowledging and reducing inequities that disproportionally impact families racialized as Black or Latinx; (2) intervening to mitigate stressors surrounding families; (3) using innovative methods to deliver relationship education; and (4) considering prevention versus intervention strategies.

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2021

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“…First, for example, prior research has consistently shown that Black Americans, relative to other racialized groups, are less likely to be married (Raley et al, 2015;Raley & Sweeney, 2009), and more likely to experience a nonmarital childbirth (Wildsmith et al, 2018). Second, previous research shows that Black families, compared to White families, report lower levels of relationship quality between partners (Broman, 2005;Bulanda & Brown, 2007;Williams & Perry, 2019;Williams, 2021).…”

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Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families

Williams

2023

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Structural racism is central for understanding Black families, but structural racism has not been central to quantitative research on Black families. Instead, research on Black families has disproportionately used deficit frameworks and race‐neutral explanations that misrepresent the reality of Black families. For the current commentary, I begin with a straightforward question: why are scholars still grappling with the role of White supremacy in family science? To address this question, I contend that family science needs a more nuanced theoretical perspective on Black families that adequately addresses the association between racism and race. I offer a novel conceptual model for the study of Black family inequality. I take racism and the social construction of race seriously by focusing on the making, the maintenance, and the manifestation of racial stratification. My hope is that family scholars will employ theoretical frameworks that center racism and highlight the social construction of race.

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“…Other studies have more broadly examined increasing racial segregation and labor fragmentation at higher levels using ACS data, but they have not been able to look at the overlaps of such variables at a high spatial resolution (Lichter, Parisi, and Taquino 2012). Many studies have examined the evolving family complexity in the United States using ACS data at a national or state level (Bloome 2017; Maralani 2013), but these studies increasingly take a longitudinal perspective to examine evolving cohabitation patterns and socioeconomic implications, including racialized contours (Carlson and Corcoran 2001; Williams, Simon, and Cardwell 2019). Still, empirical research is needed on the geographic distribution of these patterns.…”

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Small-Area Analyses Using Public American Community Survey Data: A Tree-Based Spatial Microsimulation Technique

Graetz

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2021

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Quantitative sociologists and social policymakers are increasingly interested in local context. Some city-specific studies have developed new primary data collection efforts to analyze inequality at the neighborhood level, but methods from spatial microsimulation have yet to be broadly used in sociology to take better advantage of existing public data sets. The American Community Survey (ACS) is the largest household survey in the United States and indispensable for detailed analysis of specific places and populations. The authors propose a technique, tree-based spatial microsimulation, to produce “small-area” (census-tract) estimates of any person- or household-level phenomenon that can be derived from ACS microdata variables. The approach is straightforward and computationally efficient, based only on publicly available data, and it provides more reliable estimates than do prevailing methods of microsimulation. The authors demonstrate the technique’s capabilities by producing tract-level estimates, stratified by race/ethnicity, of (1) the proportion of people in the census-tract population who have children and work in an essential occupation and (2) the proportion of people in the census-tract population living below the federal poverty threshold and in a household that spends greater than 50 percent of monthly income on rent or owner costs. These examples are relevant to understanding the sociospatial inequalities dramatized by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The authors discuss potential extensions of the technique to derive small-area estimates of variables observed in surveys other than the ACS.

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Black Intimacies Matter: the Role of Family Status, Gender, and Cumulative Risk on Relationship Quality Among Black Parents

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

Strengthening lower‐income families: Lessons learned from policy responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic

Strengthening lower‐income families: Lessons learned from policy responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic

Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families

Small-Area Analyses Using Public American Community Survey Data: A Tree-Based Spatial Microsimulation Technique

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