Race & family : a structural approach /
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 exam...
| Основен автор: | Coles, Roberta L. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
℗♭2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Race & family. |
Съдържание:
- 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.