Pagnini D L, Morgan S P
Princeton University.
AJS. 1996 May;101(6):1694-718. doi: 10.1086/230871.
Using oral histories collected in 1938 and 1939 in the Southern United States, this article examines how African-Americans and whites viewed marriage and nonmarital childbearing. The authors document distinct racial differences in family norms and the sanctions that supported those norms. Giving birth outside a marital relationship was clearly not the stigmatizing event for African-Americans that it was for whites. The authors also found that African-Americans were more likely than whites to end marriages under similar conditions. These results suggest that debates about contemporary racial differences need to take into account the historical background, both cultural and demographic, of diverse groups.
本文利用1938年和1939年在美国南部收集的口述历史，研究了非裔美国人和白人如何看待婚姻和非婚生育。作者记录了家庭规范以及支持这些规范的制裁措施中明显的种族差异。非婚生育对非裔美国人而言显然不像对白人那样是一件丢脸的事。作者还发现，在类似情况下，非裔美国人比白人更有可能结束婚姻。这些结果表明，关于当代种族差异的辩论需要考虑不同群体的历史背景，包括文化和人口统计学背景。
