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Author: Hilary Masters

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSC:32106002180187

Category: Americans

Page: 338

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At the same time, the courts routinely decided in favor of family unity, citing the force or power of marriage. ... He explained that her marriage to an American citizen was “indicative of her good character, whatever she may have been ...

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Author: Priscilla Yamin

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 9780812206647

Category: Political Science

Page: 224

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As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage itself. Yet, the struggle over same-sex marriage is only the most recent political and public debate over marriage in the United States. What is at stake for those who want to restrict marriage and for those who seek to extend it? Why has the issue become such a national debate? These questions can be answered only by viewing marriage as a political institution as well as a religious and cultural one. In its political dimension, marriage circumscribes both the meaning and the concrete terms of citizenship. Marriage represents communal duty, moral education, and social and civic status. Yet, at the same time, it represents individual choice, contract, liberty, and independence from the state. According to Priscilla Yamin, these opposing but interrelated sets of characteristics generate a tension between a politics of obligations on the one hand and a politics of rights on the other. To analyze this interplay, American Marriage examines the status of ex-slaves at the close of the Civil War, immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, civil rights and women's rights in the 1960s, and welfare recipients and gays and lesbians in the contemporary period. Yamin argues that at moments when extant political and social hierarchies become unstable, political actors turn to marriage either to stave off or to promote political and social changes. Some marriages are pushed as obligatory and necessary for the good of society, while others are contested or presented as dangerous and harmful. Thus political struggles over race, gender, economic inequality, and sexuality have been articulated at key moments through the language of marital obligations and rights. Seen this way, marriage is not outside the political realm but interlocked with it in mutual evolution.

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Author: Theodore Caplow

Publisher:

ISBN: MINN:319510019736841

Category: Marriage

Page: 125

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Ninety per cent of the population of the American colonies in 1699 were persons of English birth or parentage. Counting the Swedes of the Delaware, the Dutch of New York, the handful of Germans in Pennsylvania, and the small group of ...

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Author: William Montgomery Clemens

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

ISBN: 9780806300757

Category: Reference

Page: 259

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Public marriage records listed in Colonial America prior to 1699.

CHAPTER ONE An American Marriage, Immigration Style The Law The United States immigration law allows American citizens to sponsor their spouses for an immediate visa and entry into the United States. American immigration law also allows ...

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Author: Stephen J. Zawacki

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

ISBN: 9781581127010

Category: Law

Page: 108

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If you are thinking about moving to the United States as the spouse of an American citizen, this book is for you. While most immigration books can only be understood by lawyers, this book is different. The author, an immigration lawyer, describes the American immigration process using everyday English and many examples. Chapter One describes what is a marriage in the eyes of the American immigration system. Chapters Two through Five cover specific time frames in the immigration-processing of a marriage-based visa: Courtship and Marriage, Forms Preparation, The Marriage Interview and Denials. Chapter Six discusses fiancé visas - what they are and how they work. Chapter Seven provides some typical "questions and answers" to marriage-related immigration topics.

Create Hours of Conversation: - Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups - Foster a deeper understanding of the book - Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately - Explore unseen realms of the book as never ...

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Author: Bookhabits

Publisher: Blurb

ISBN: 1388509571

Category: Education

Page: 68

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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones: Conversation Starters An American Marriage, the latest book by bestselling author Tayari Jones, is an inspiring story that takes you inside the thoughts and feelings of Celestial and Roy, a married couple living in Atlanta. This African American couple is torn apart when Roy is sentenced to over a decade in prison for something he didn't do. How will they be able to move forward with their lives without letting the past hold them back? The book was chosen by Oprah Winfrey to be a part of The Oprah Book Club 2.0 in 2018, which has propelled Tayari Jones to success. Oprah said Jones has the gift of touching her readers "soul to soul with her words." A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on. These questions can be used to... Create Hours of Conversation: - Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups - Foster a deeper understanding of the book - Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately - Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before Disclaimer: This book you are about to enjoy is an independent resource meant to supplement the original book. If you have not yet read the original book, we encourage you to before purchasing this unofficial Conversation Starters.

In a Ghanaian/African-American marriage, however, especially in the USA, everything is done through a concerted effort, and an earned income, for example, belongs to the couple equally as a joint union. At this juncture, the couple is ...

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Author: Rosemary Breger

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000324242

Category: Social Science

Page: 260

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As societies world-wide become increasingly multicultural, so the issues of identity, belonging, tolerance and racism become imperative to understand in their various forms. This book adds to the discussion by examining the interface between the lived, personal experiences of people in cross-cultural marriages and wider socio-political issues. One major contribution this book offers is that the marriages discussed are from a very broad range of cultures and classes. Amongst other issues, contributors examine: the legal and social factors influencing cross-cultural marriages; the personality factors and positive or negative stereotypes of otherness that influence spouse choice; notions of identity, gender and personhood, and definitions of difference, and how these are often tied up in emotive stereotypes; how all these factors affect the ongoing process of living together and the ability to cope; and how the children of such marriages come to terms with identity choices. This book should be highly relevant to the growing number of people in cross-cultural marriages, as well as to professionals in the fields of marriage guidance, child welfare and academics interested in ethnicity and kinship.

That is, third-generation and later-generation U.S.-born spouses might be more likely to view marriage to Russian ... ends of a single dimension (consistent with Hofstede, 1980) in their respective studies of Russian-American marriage.

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Author: Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781317196846

Category: Psychology

Page: 234

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Drawing on psychological and sociological perspectives as well as quantitative and qualitative data, Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the United States considers the ways the self and social identity are linked to the dynamics of interethnic marriage. Bringing together the classic theoretical contributions of George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, and Erik Erikson with contemporary research on ethnic identity inspired by Jean Phinney, this book argues that the self and social identity—especially ethnic identity—are reflected in individuals’ complex journey from singlehood to interethnic marriage within the United States.

To understand how marriage fosters individual - level solutions to social - level problems , we first turn to a dramatization of the American marriage ideal . In the example we analyze here ...

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Author: Lori Kowaleski-Jones

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 0387258841

Category: Social Science

Page: 238

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This book explores issues related to fragile families from many different perspectives, looking particularly at the causes and consequences of this issue. Some social sciences contend that marriage is the solution to many of the problems associated with single-parent families. This book is divided into sections covering legal and theoretical perspectives, causes and consequences of offspring wellbeing, and the aspect of father’s importance to "fragile families."

Only a couple of decades ago marriage as an American legal status was rooted firmly in religion, layered with a vague semisecular “tradition.”6 Law-based consequences would follow, but they drew little attention at a national level.

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Author: Anita Bernstein

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 9780814791103

Category: Law

Page: 256

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The essays in Marriage Proposals envision a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are the legal consequences associated with marriage. No joint income tax return; no immigration privileges like the “fiancée visa” or the right to bring in a husband or wife; no special statuses for prison visits or hospital decisions; no prerogative to remain silent in court by claiming “confidential marital communications”; no pension entitlements; no marital benefits and detriments regarding criminal or civil liability. The anthology makes a unique contribution amid the two marriage furors of the day: same-sex marriage and the Bush Administration's “marriage movement” (that marrying is good and more marriages would be better for society). Abolishing the legal category of marriage is the only policy suggestion in current American discourse that speaks to both causes. Activists on both sides of the same-sex marriage fight, along with marriage movement partisans, all seek improvement through law reform. Marriage Proposals gives them a viable reform—abolition of marriage as a legal status—for fighting battles in the courtroom and the streets. Contributors include Anita Bernstein, Peggy Cooper Davis, Martha Albertson Fineman, Linda C. McClain, Marshall Miller, Lawrence Rosen, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Dorian Solot.