Press Release
Summary = "Won’t Be Denied": a suspense novel --
a portrait of an obsessed, single African American female.
Press Release
Body = Atlanta, GA, October 10, 2004: Today there are many single
women over the age of thirty. The 2000 Census Bureau recorded that
2,219,489 women between the ages of 30 and 34 have never married.
The vast majority
of single black women make up 60 percent of all unmarried women.
By the age of 30, a mere 45 percent of black women have married,
compared to 80 percent of white women.
Such disproportionate
statistics have led to many hypotheses as to why large proportions
of the African American female population are single. Social psychologist and author of “Black and Single”, Larry
Davis explains the “black romantic market” in the article,
“The State of Our Union: Black Love and Marriage,
2004”, on Africana.com. Davis believes that social factors
such as black male imprisonment and interracial relationships leave
black women outnumbering black men 2 to 1. Within the same article,
therapist and radio personality Audrey B. Chapman
disputes Mr. Davis’ figures. It is her belief that the proportions
are closer to 4 to1 or 6 to 1.
“I figured
that as I made more money and got the education that’s required
to get a good job, that that would automatically make it easier
for me to find someone,” said Lana Coleman, a Pasadena Calif.,
attorney, in the 2003 Newsweek article, “Black
Gender Gap”. “But it’s really been the opposite.”
Ms. Coleman’s sentiments are reflective of other self-reliant
and professional black women.
The chances
of a black woman finding a single, 33 – 39-year-old, heterosexual,
college educated, successful African American male in a 1 percent
population is about .16 percent. The 1 percent includes those men
in cities and their surrounding
suburbs with large urban populations, such as Chicago, Atlanta,
Washington, D.C.,
New York, Oakland, and Detroit.
Essence magazine’s
advice columnist, Gwen Grant, stated in the Savannah Morning News,
2002, that educated black women should expand their selection to
dating outside their race. If not, they will continue to have limited
options.
The most extraordinary
statistic is that only 22 percent of an African American woman’s
life span will be spent in marriage.
"Won’t
Be Denied," a 227-page novel, shines a light into an obsessed,
single African
American female. In the well-crafted suspense novel, author C.F.
Jackson, graduate from Georgia Southern University with a BS degree
in Criminal Justice, lays out the story in two sentences: Love won’t
be denied. Maré comes to value it more than
life. The story is set in Atlanta, Georgia. It is an easy, suspenseful
read. The character-driven plot is a page-turner.
For more information,
or to purchase "Won’t Be Denied" (ISBN 0-9762230-0-7),
contact
the publisher, Organized Thoughts Publishing: Post Office Box 920622,
Norcross, GA 30010 or www.cfjackson.us. Bookstores and libraries
in the U.S. can order Won’t Be Denied through Baker &
Taylor database. To be released on November 9, 2004.
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