Race & family: a structural approach
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1. Verfasser: Coles, Roberta L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications ©2006
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-287) and indexes
1. Introduction -- Overview of text -- Discussion of key concepts -- Race -- Ethnicity -- Racial-ethnic labels -- Minority and majority -- Family or kin -- 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 -- Immigrant status -- 3. A brief history of the American family -- American families through the centuries -- The agricultural era (colonial period 1500 to 1800) -- The industrial era (about 1800 to 1970) -- The service era (Since the 1970s) -- 4. Cross-cultural comparisons -- Social or legal marriage -- Marriage types and choices -- Marriage as a 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 -- Extended family households -- Multigenerational extended households -- Simple extended households -- Stem family households -- Attenuated extended households -- Laterally extended households -- Extended families as systems of exchange -- Nuclear family households -- Single-parent families -- Female-headed households -- Nonmarital births -- Teen births -- Explaining the racial gap in nonmarital births -- Outcomes for female-headed households -- Male-headed households -- Noncustodial parents -- Nonfamily households
6. Gender relations and sex ratios -- Gender stereotypes and roles -- Adult roles -- Sex ratios -- African American gender issues -- Latina/o gender issues -- Asian American gender issues -- Native 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 and class -- Parenting styles and environment -- Corporal punishment and abuse -- Parenting styles and the school system -- Racial socialization -- Cultural rituals that contribute to racial socialization -- 8. Intergenerational relationships in late life : the elderly, their adult children and grandchildren -- Intergenerational interaction -- Living arrangements of the elderly -- Caregiving for the elderly -- Nursing home use -- Informal home caregiving -- Caregiver stress -- Elder abuse -- Social interaction and resource exchange -- Grandparenting -- Illness and death -- Illness -- Death -- African Americans -- Native Americans -- Latino Americans -- Asian 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 Indians and their 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 -- Puerto Rico -- Cuba -- Similarities among Hispanic families -- Divergent trends among Latino ethnic groups -- 12. Asian American families -- East Asians in America -- Chinese Americans -- The Japanese American experience -- Asian Indian, Filipino, and Korean Americans -- Southeast Asians in America -- Asian American families today -- 13. 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 -- Bi- or multi-racial identity -- Trans- or interracial adoption
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ISBN:1452244901
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