Complex Ethnic Households in America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

Av Laurel Schwede, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Anna Y. Chan

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What commonalities link Navajos in their vast Arizona reservation and rural whites in upstate New York? More than you'd suspect when both live in complex households that include people other than nuclear kin. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary book on complex households in six U.S. ethnic groups-the other four are the Inupiat of Alaska, urban African Americans, Korean immigrants in New York City, and Latino immigrants in central Virginia-uniquely combines rich ethnographic descriptions with theory-linked overviews and Census 2000 data. It explores interactions of household structure, ethnicity, and gender, while illuminating factors affecting the formation and dissolution of complex households, which are becoming increasingly important as ethnic diversity increases throughout the U.S.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-02-09
Mått160 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742546363

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Samhälle och kultur inom Samhalle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhalle och politik

Chapter 1 The Way We Live: Complex Ethnic Households in AmericaChapter 2 The First Arrivals: Navajo and Inupiaq EskimosChapter 3 I Live Here and I Stay There: Navajo Perceptions of Households on the ReservationChapter 4 Household Adaptive Strategies among the InupiatChapter 5 The Recent Arrivals: Latinos and KoreansChapter 6 Household Structure and Its Social and Economic Functions among Korean American Immigrants in Queens, New York: An Ethnographic StudyChapter 7 Making Ends Meet: The Complex Household as a Temporary Survival Strategy among New Latino Immigrants to VirginiaChapter 8 The African Americans and WhitesChapter 9 African American Households in Transition: Structure, Culture, and Self-definitionChapter 10 Not the Typical Household: Whites in Rural New YorkChapter 11 Gender, Economy, and Kinship in Complex Households among Six U.S. Ethnic Groups:Who Benefits? Whose Kin? Who Cares?Chapter 12 Who Lives Here? Complex Ethnic Households in America

This is a gem of a book. It not only makes a significant contribution to scholarship, but is enjoyable to read. With its unusual combination of ethnography, demography, and theoretical insights, the book would be useful in a variety of courses?includingethnic studies, anthropology, demography, and especially, the sociology of the family. Further, it contains an important message for social scientists, policy makers, and others who take it for granted that census bureau classifications of household andfamily structure and relationships are hard, objective data, valid for the entire population...