American Families

A Multicultural Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-91573-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coontz, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Stephanie Coontz -- Introduction
I. THE AMERICAN TRADITION OF FAMILY DIVERSITY
Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Fictive Kin, Paper sons, and Compadrazgo:

Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival
David Wallace Adams -- Excerpts from Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
Niara Sudarkasa -- Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization
Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Split Household. Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies
Stephanie Coontz -- Working Class Families, 1870-1890
George J. Sanchez -- Excerpts from Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
Jacqueline Jones -- Southern Diaspora: Origins of the Northern "Underclass"
II. INTEGRATING RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER INTO FAMILY THEORY
Rayna Rapp -- Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes Toward an Understanding of Ideology
Patricia Hill Collins -- Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood
Karen Brodkin Sacks -- Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender
Maxine Baca Zinn -- Social Science Theorizing for Latino Families in the Age of Diversity
III. WORKING CLASS AND INNER-CITY FAMILIES UNDER ECONOMIC STRESS
Thomas Sugrue -- Poor Families in an Era of Urban Transformation: The "Underclass" Family in Myth and Reality
Gabrielle Raley -- No Good Choices: Teenage Childbearing, Concentrated Poverty, and Welfare Reform
Lillian B. Rubin -- Excerpts from Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race and Ethnicity
IV. GLOBALIZATION AND THE NEW IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Women and Children First: New Directions in Anti-Immigrant Politics
Grace Chang -- Global Exchange: The World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the Global Trade in Filipina Workers
Nazli Kibria -- Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity V. WORK-FAMILY ISSUES
Sarah Ryan -- Management by Stress: The Reorganization of Work Hits Home in the 1990s
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner -- Gender Displays and Men's Power: The "New Man" and the Mexican Immigrant Man
Tamara Anderson and Beth Vail -- Child Care Dilemmas in Contemporary Families
VI. FAMILY DIVERSITY: NEW MODELS AND OLD
Judith Stacey -- Gay and Lesbian Families are Here; All Our Families are Queer; Let's Get Used to It!
Beverly Greene and Nancy Boyd-Franklin -- African American Lesbians: Issues in Couples Therapy
Michelle Harrison -- Social Construction of Mary Beth Whitehead
Barbara Katz Rothman -- Comment on Harrison: The Commodification of Motherhood
Maria P. P. Root -- Resolving "Other" Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals
Margaret Crosbie-Burnett and William Julius Wilson -- Use of African- American Family Structures and Functioning to Address the Challenges of European-American Postdivorce Families
VII. RECOGNIZING DIVERSITY, ENCOURAGING SOLIDARITY
Roger Lawson and William Julius Wilson -- Poverty, Social Rights, and the Quality of Citizenship
Stephen Steinberg --The Case for a Race Specific Policy
Judith Stacey -- The Family Values Fable

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie Coontz is Professor of Family History at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. She is author of The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families (1997) and The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992).