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Author Coles, Roberta L., author.

Title Race and family : a structural approach / Roberta L. Coles.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.85 C693R    Check Shelf
Edition Second edition.
Description xix, 389 pages ; 23 cm
Note Earlier edition published as: Race & family.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents 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 --
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.
Subject Families -- United States.
Minorities -- Family relationships -- United States.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Minorities -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst01023163
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Title Race & family
ISBN 9781442254374 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1442254378 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9781442254381 (paperback)
1442254386 (paperback)
9781442254398 (electronic book)
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