Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 410
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4422-5437-4 • Hardback • January 2016 • $172.00 • (£133.00)
978-1-4422-5438-1 • Paperback • January 2016 • $74.00 • (£57.00)
978-1-4422-5439-8 • eBook • January 2016 • $70.00 • (£54.00)
Roberta L. Coles is professor of sociology at Marquette University. She specializes in the study of family and is the author of The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers and coeditor of The Myth of the Missing Black Father.
Brief Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Overview of the Text
Discussion of Key Concepts
Resources
2. Approaching the Study of Race and Family
Economic Factors
Demographic Factors
Historical-Legal Factors
Resources
3. A Brief History of the American Family
American Families through the Centuries
Resources
4. Cross-Cultural Comparisons
Social or Legal Marriage
Marriage Types and Choices
Marriage as a Family Affair
Family Power Systems
Family Functions
Resources
5. Family Structures
Prevalence of Family Structure from the Child’s Perspective
Pathways to Single Parenthood
Advantages and Disadvantages of Family Structures
Extended Family Households
Nonfamily Households
Resources
6. Gender Relations and Sex Ratios
Gender Construction and Socialization
Sex Ratios
African American Gender Issues
Native American Gender Issues
Latina/o Gender Issues
Asian American Gender Issues
Domestic Violence
Resources
7. Intergenerational Relationships: Parent and Child
Individual and Communal Orientations
Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Children’s Well-Being
Racial Socialization
Resources
8 Intergenerational Relationships in Late Life:
The Elderly, Their Adult Children, and Their Grandchildren
Intergenerational Interaction
Caregiving for the Ill Elderly
Illness and Death
Death
Resources
9. African American Families
How Did Slavery Shape Black American Families?
African American Families after Slavery
African American Families Today
Resources
10. Native American Families
Looking Back in History
The State of American Indian Families Today
Resources
11. Latino American Families
Manner and Timing of Entry
Effects of History and Immigration on Socioeconomic Status
Familism and Cultural Commonalities
Divergent Family Trends among Latino Ethnic Groups
Resources
12. Asian American Families
East Asians in America
Southeast Asians in America
Asian American Families Today
Resources
13. Middle Eastern American Families
Religions in the Middle East
Their Immigration History
Current Demographics and Family Life
Resources
14. Acculturation and Multiracial Family Issues
Acculturation
Multiracial Issues
Resources
Race and Family offers one of the most comprehensive explorations of family life I have encountered in my decades of teaching family courses. Professor Coles describes her book as providing an integrated structural approach to understanding families, and it succeeds in moving seamlessly across time, cultures, and nationalities to explain how historic and economic forces shape families. Using an engaging writing style, the book explores topics ranging from cross-national differences in gender relations to processes of acculturation among immigrant families. While the title Race and Family does aptly describe the book’s focus, it almost belies the richness and scope of its contents.
— Shirley A. Hill, University of Kansas
In this updated edition of Race and Family, Roberta L. Coles provides readers with tools to analyze, contextualize, and more fully understand the experiences of families of color in the United States and does so with straightforward writing, engaging examples, and explanations that make sophisticated theoretical arguments accessible and clear.
— Erin N. Winkler, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Race and Family is a comprehensive introduction to the diverse literature on race, ethnicity, and culture as it relates to family. The book does a respectable job of guiding readers through the minefields created by historical and contemporary political controversies surrounding the ways that family is thought about in relationship to race, social class, culture, immigration, and gender.
— Paul Rosenblatt, University of Minnesota
A very useful book as a companion text for courses on race and ethnicity. . . . The chapters are easy to follow for undergraduate students.
— Renxin Yang, Northern Michigan University
FEATURES- Looks at ethnic minority families in a novel way—through a structural lens
- Takes a structural approach without ignoring culture
- Includes chapters on aspects of general family trends, such as family structure and intergenerational relations
- Offers separate chapters providing the history of African Americans, Native Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans, as well as illustrating the diversity within each group
NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION- Provides most recent census data
- Includes a new chapter on Middle Eastern Americans
- Features new examples throughout
- Additional coverage of multiracial and multicultural family issues, such as transracial adoption, interracial marriage, and multiracial identity
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