1. Introduction -- Discussion of key concepts -- Race -- Ethnicity -- Racial-ethnic labels in the data -- Minority and majority -- Family or kin -- Census data -- 2. Approaching the study of race and family -- Economic factors -- Occupational structure -- Income and wealth distribution -- Poverty -- Education -- Demographic factors -- Sex ratio -- Age structure -- Geographic distribution -- Historical-legal factors -- Manner of entry -- Current immigrant status -- 3. A brief history of the American family -- American families through the centuries -- The Agricultural Era (Colonial Period, 1500-1800) -- The Industrial Era (about 1800-1970) -- The Service Era (since the 1970s) -- 4. Cross-cultural comparisons -- Social or legal marriage -- Marriage types and choices -- Marriage as family affair -- Arranged marriages -- Exchange of resources -- Family power systems-- Descent -- Family roles and titles -- Residence -- Family functions -- Reproduction -- Regulation of sexuality -- Socialization of children -- 5. Family structures -- Prevalence of family structure from the child's perspective -- Pathways to single parenthood -- Divorce -- Nonmarital births -- Teen births -- Explaining racial variation in nonmarital births -- Advantages and disadvantages of family structures-- Single-father families -- Noncustodial parents -- Extended family households -- Multigenerational extended households-- Simple multigenerational extended households -- Stem family households-- Attenuated extended households-- Laterally extended households -- Extended families as systems of exchange -- Nonfamily households -- 6. Gender relations and sex ratios -- Gender construction and socialization -- Adult roles -- Sex ratios -- African American gender issues -- Native American gender issues -- Latina/o gender issues -- Asian American gender issues -- Domestic violence -- 7. Intergenerational relationships : parent and child -- Individual and communal orientations -- Effects of socioeconomic status on children's well-being -- Parenting styles, class, and environment -- Corporal punishment and child abuse -- Parenting styles and the school system -- Racial socialization -- Cultural rituals that contribute to racial socialization --
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8. Intergenerational relationships in late life : the elderly, their adult children, and their grandchildren -- Intergenerational interaction -- Living arrangements of the elderly -- Grandparenting -- Social interaction and resource exchange between generations -- Caregiving for the ill elderly -- Caregiver stress -- Nursing home use -- Elder abuse -- Illness and death -- Illness -- Death -- African Americans -- Native Americans -- Latino Americans --Asian Americans -- Middle Eastern Americans -- 9. African American families -- How did slavery shape Black American families? -- African American families after slavery -- African American families today -- 10. Native American families -- Looking back in history -- Removal and reservations -- Assimilating Native Americans -- Increased Tribal sovereignty -- The state of American Indian families today -- On or off the reservation -- Tribal structure -- Cultural values -- Current family trends -- 11. Latino American families -- Manner and timing of entry -- Mexico -- Puerto Rico and Cuba -- Effects of history and immigration on socioeconomic status -- Familism and cultural commonalities- - Divergent family trends among Latino ethnic groups -- 12. Asian American families -- East Asians in American -- Chinese Americans -- The Japanese American experience -- Asian Indian, Filipino, and Korean Americans -- Southeast Asians in America -- Asian American families today -- Religious varieties -- The role of structural factors in variation among Asian American families -- 13. Middle Eastern American families -- Religions in the Middle East -- Their immigration history -- Current demographics and family life -- 14. Acculturation and multiracial family issues -- Acculturation -- Factors hindering and helping acculturation -- Effects of acculturation on family life -- Multiracial issues -- Interracial dating and marriage -- Dating and cohabitation -- Interracial marriage -- Race and gender influences on interracial marriage rates -- Generation, education, and residence as influences on interracial marriage -- Why marry interracially? -- Social acceptance and outcomes of interracial marriage -- Mixed race identity -- Transnational or interracial adoption.
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In Race and Family: A Structural Approach, author Roberta L. Coles looks at ethnic minority families in a novel way-- through a structural lens. Unlike many texts on race and family, this book offers an approach that illustrates overarching structural factors affecting all families as opposed to examining each ethnicity in isolation from one another. By focusing on various structural factors such as demographic, economic, and historical aspects, this book analyzes various family trends in a cross-cutting manner to exemplify the similarities and distinctions among all racial and ethnic groups.
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9781442254398
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Race & family
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Families-- United States.
Minorities-- Family relationships-- United States.