Undermining Marriage: White Supremacy and the Black Family

Black History Month Lecture with Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies Executive Director Jacqueline C. Rivers
As part of 2021 Black History Month programming at Mizzou, the Kinder Institute, in partnership with the Truman School of Public Affairs, will bring Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies Executive Director and Senior Fellow Jacqueline C. Rivers to campus (via Zoom) for a talk on the structural disadvantages and cultural patterns that have led to fewer black people participating in marriage; the generational consequences of this trend; and the social policy levers and church-based action that might help us begin the long, difficult process of reversing it.

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The idea that marriageable black women outnumber marriageable black men is unfounded. THE VAST MAJORITY of black men out earn their female counterparts according to The Economic Policy Institute, that’s over 11,000,000 of us here in the US, with the capacity to provide for a black woman, better than she could on her own. That number is greater than any sub category of black women deemed marriageable. There’s enough provisioning black men to go around.

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