Roberta L. Coles

Race and Family (eBook, PDF)

A Structural Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of Race and Family maintains the book's distinctive feature-introducing students to key concepts through a structural lens-while featuring new material throughout. Race and Family focuses on structural factors impacting all families, such as demographic, economic, and historic trends, which illuminate the similarities and distinctions among and within racial and ethnic groups.

After introductions to the study of race, ethnicity, and the family, the book explores various issues such as family structure, divorce, non-marital births, gender roles, racial identity formation, intergenerational roles, grandparenting, care of elders, and more. The book offers specific chapters on racial-ethnic groups including African American, Asian American, Latino American, Middle Eastern American, and Native American, while also discussing white families, multiracial families, the acculturation process, and more. Key updates to the second edition include recent census and survey data, a new chapter on Middle Eastern Americans, new material on multiracial and multicultural families, updated resources, and more.

The second edition of Race and Family is a comprehensive introduction to race and family through a distinctive structural lens. The book provides structural factors, cross-cultural perspectives, and historical overviews that students can use to analyze the whys and ways of family across races and ethnicities.

A complimentary test bank is available to adopters as a Word document or via the free program Respondus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881877422
• Artikelnr.: 74846097

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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