| Description |
xxxiii, 501 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-499). |
| Contents |
Introduction / Stephanie Coontz -- pt. I. The American Tradition of Family Diversity. 1. Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival / Bonnie Thornton Dill. 2. Excerpts from Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 / David Wallace Adams. 3. Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization / Niara Sudarkasa. 4. Split Household, Small Producer, and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies / Evelyn Nakano Glenn. 5. Working-Class Families, 1870-1890 / Stephanie Coontz. 6. Excerpts from Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 / George J. Sanchez. 7. Southern Diaspora: Origins of the Northern "Underclass" / Jacqueline Jones -- pt. II. Integrating Race, Class, and Gender into Family Theory. 8. Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes toward an Understanding of Ideology / Rayna Rapp. 9. Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins. 10. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender / Karen Brodkin Sacks. 11. Social Science Theorizing for Latino Families in the Age of Diversity / Maxine Baca Zinn -- pt. III. Working-Class and Inner-City Families under Economic Stress. 12. Poor Families in an Era of Urban Transformation: The "Underclass" Family in Myth and Reality / Thomas J. Sugrue. 13. No Good Choices: Teenage Childbearing, Concentrated Poverty, and Welfare Reform / Gabrielle Raley. 14. Excerpts from Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity / Lillian B. Rubin -- pt. IV. Globalization and Today's Immigrant Families. 15. Women and Children First: New Directions in Anti-immigrant Politics / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 16. Global Exchange: The World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the Global Trade in Filipina Workers / Grace Chang. 17. Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity / Nazli Kibria -- pt. V. Work-Family Issues. 18. Management by Stress: The Reorganization of Work Hits Home in the 1990s / Sarah Ryan. 19. Gender Displays and Men's Power: The "New Man" and the Mexican Immigrant Man / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner. 20. Child-Care Dilemmas in Contemporary Families / Tamara Anderson and Beth Vail -- pt. VI. New Forms of Family Diversity. 21. Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here: All Our Families Are Queer: Let's Get Used to It! / Judith Stacey. 22. African American Lesbians: Issues in Couples Therapy / Beverly Greene and Nancy Boyd-Franklin. 23. Social Construction of Mary Beth Whitehead / Michelle Harrison. 24. Comment on Harrison: The Commodification of Motherhood / Barbara Katz Rothman. 25. Resolving "Other" Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals / Maria P.P. Root. 26. Use of African-American Family Structures and Functioning to Address the Challenges of European-American Postdivorce Families / Margaret Crosbie-Burnett and Edith A. Lewis -- pt. VII. Recognizing Diversity, Encouraging Solidarity. 27. Poverty, Social Rights, and the Quality of Citizenship / Roger Lawson and William Julius Wilson. 28. The Case for a Race-Specific Policy / Stephen Steinberg. 29. The Family Values Fable / Judith Stacey -- Selected Bibliography of Recent Sources / Maya Parson. |
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Families -- United States.
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Multiculturalism -- United States.
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Ethnicity -- United States.
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Work and family -- United States.
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Ethnicity. (OCoLC)fst00916034
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Multiculturalism. (OCoLC)fst01028836
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Work and family. (OCoLC)fst01180235
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Coontz, Stephanie.
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Parson, Maya.
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Raley, Gabrielle.
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| ISBN |
0415915732 (HB ; alk. paper) |
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9780415915731 (HB ; alk. paper) |
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0415915740 (PB ; alk. paper) |
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9780415915748 (PB ; alk. paper) |
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