American Families

A Multicultural Reader
2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-95821-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 909 g

In the past forty years, American families have become more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Different family forms and living arrangements have also multiplied, with single-parent families, cohabiting couples with children, divorced couples with children, stepfamilies, and newly-visible same-sex families. During the same period, socioeconomic inequality among families has risen to levels not seen since the 1920s.

This second edition of American Families offers several benefits:

- clear conceptual focus

- new attention to the historical origins of contemporary family diversity

- well-chosen essays by leading names from across the curriculum

- explores the interactions between race-ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping family life

- cCompletely updated and expanded bibliography of related sources

- new companion website with student and instructor resources to enhance learning.

Leading off with a comprehensive and teachable introduction to the topic, this completely updated, revised, and expanded second edition of Stephanie Coontz's classic collection American Families remains the best resource available on family diversity in America.

For additional information and classroom resources please visit the American Families companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415958219.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coontz, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the Second Edition Part I. Who We Were: Diversity and Inequality in American Family History 1. Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, And Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival 2. Excerpts from Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 3. Excerpt from Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave, "The Threat of Sale: The Black Family as a Mechanism of Control" 4. Split Household, Small Producer, and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies 5. Excerpt from Huck’s Raft, "Laboring Children" 6. Excerpts from Becoming Mexican American Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1990–1945 7. Excerpt from Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race & Romance 8. Race, Class, and Reproductive Politics in American History 9. Excerpt from Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family Part II. Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Family Theory 10. Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood 11. Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes Toward an Understanding of Ideology 12. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender 13. Immigrant Families in the US 14. Diversity Within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science 15. Intersectionality and Work-Family Studies Part III. Global Households: Globalization, Immigration, and Family Life 16. "Management by Stress" -- The reorganization of work hits home 17. Excerpts from Families on the Fault Line: America’s Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity 18. Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor 19. Excerpt from Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity, "The Making of Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity among Asian American Youth" 20. Gender Displays and Men’s Power: The "New Man" and the Mexican Immigrant Man 21. Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity Part IV. Life at the Margins: Families in Extreme Poverty 22. Poverty in the Era of Welfare Reform: The "Underclass" Family in Myth and Reality 23. Avenue to Adulthood: Teenage Pregnancy and the Meaning of Motherhood in Poor Communities 24. Mothering Through Recruitment: Kinscription of Nonresidential Fathers and Father Figures in Low-Income Families 25. Windfall Child Rearing: Low-income care and consumption Part V. Revisioning Contemporary Family Issues through the Lens of Race, Ethnicity and Class 26. Moms and Jobs: Trends in Mothers’ Employment and Which Mothers Stay Home 27. A War Against Boys? 28. Diversity among same-sex couples and their children 29. Excerpts from Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life 30. A Black Feminist Reflection on the Antiviolence Movement 31. Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships between Asian American Women and White American Men 32. Excerpts from Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America Part VI. Recognizing Diversity, Building Solidarity: Integrating Race and Class Issues into Public Policy 33. The Color of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender, and Extended Family Involvement 34. Work and American Families: Diverse Needs, Common Solutions Selected Bibliography of Recent Sources, Permissions Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie Coontz is Professor of Family History at the Evergreen State College. She is the author of numerous books, including Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage.

Maya Parson is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Gabrielle Raley is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.