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- Title
Mate Availability and African American Family Structure in the U.S. Nonmetropolitan South, 1960-1990.
- Authors
Cready, Cynthia M.; Fossett, Mark A.; Kiecolt, K. Jill
- Abstract
The article examines structural determinants of African American marriage and family formation for a sample of non-metropolitan counties in the United States from 1960 to 1990. Most recent scholarly work implies, perhaps unintentionally, that changes in the structure of the African American family and associated increases in poverty are characteristic of and primarily concentrated in large urban areas. Employment opportunities for African American men in nom-metropolitan areas have declined as well. Employment in agriculture has declined throughout this century. Growth in the manufacturing sector offset declines in the agricultural sector in the 1940s, 1950s, and I 960s (Fossett & Seihert, in press), but has stalled altogether due to foreign competition (Bloomquist, 1988; Tigges & Tootle, 1990). As in metropolitan areas, employment opportunities in nonmetropolitan areas since 1940 have increased steadily in more highly skifled, white-collar occupations, which tend to employ women. But opportunities have decreased in occupations that tend to employ low-skilled men.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MARRIAGE of African Americans; EMPLOYMENT; AFRICAN American families; FAMILIES; SOCIAL status
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 1997, Vol 59, Issue 1, p192
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/353672