Black women married to White men: What the women see as the challenges

With interracial marriages on the rise, a need exists to learn more about what challenges spouses in these marriages may face, especially during a period of U.S. history when race is increaingly becoming a part of the national conversation following the election of Donald Trump and the 2020 protests...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of human behavior in the social environment 2024-04, Vol.34 (3), p.333-345
Main Authors: Greif, Geoffrey L., Stubbs, Victoria, Woolley, Michael E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Black people
Black women married to White men
Current events
Fatigue
Intermarriage
Interracial marriage
Interracial relationships
Interviews
Marriage
Perspective taking
Race
race relations
Racial identity
Spouses
Supreme courts
White people
Wives
Women
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:With interracial marriages on the rise, a need exists to learn more about what challenges spouses in these marriages may face, especially during a period of U.S. history when race is increaingly becoming a part of the national conversation following the election of Donald Trump and the 2020 protests. While marriages between Asians, Blacks, Latinx populations, and Whites have all increased, Black-White marriages, in particular, have been in the crucible given the legacy of U.S. enslavement with Whites dominating Blacks as well as the 1967 Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court ruling related to a Black woman married to a White man. This article, based on qualitative interviews with 14 Black women married to White men, offers five themes that emerged from these interviews. These themes are: dealing with in-laws; negativity from outsiders; perspective taking and exhaustion; the impact of current events; and defining Blackness. Black Idenity Development is used as a theoretical framework.
ISSN:1091-1359
1540-3556
DOI:10.1080/10911359.2022.2155287