American families : a multicultural reader /
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 1999. |
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| Description: | xxxiii, 501 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7198523 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I.. The American Tradition of Family Diversity
- 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.. Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization
- 4.. Split Household, Small Producer, and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies
- 5.. Working-Class Families, 1870-1890
- 6.. Excerpts from Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
- 7.. Southern Diaspora: Origins of the Northern "Underclass"
- Part II.. Integrating Race, Class, and Gender into Family Theory
- 8.. Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes toward an Understanding of Ideology
- 9.. Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood
- 10.. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender
- 11.. Social Science Theorizing for Latino Families in the Age of Diversity
- Part III.. Working-Class and Inner-City Families under Economic Stress
- 12.. Poor Families in an Era of Urban Transformation: The "Underclass" Family in Myth and Reality
- 13.. No Good Choices: Teenage Childbearing, Concentrated Poverty, and Welfare Reform
- 14.. Excerpts from Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity
- Part IV.. Globalization and Today's Immigrant Families
- 15.. Women and Children First: New Directions in Anti-immigrant Politics
- 16.. Global Exchange: The World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the Global Trade in Filipina Workers
- 17.. Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity
- Part V.. Work-Family Issues
- 18.. Management by Stress: The Reorganization of Work Hits Home in the 1990s
- 19.. Gender Displays and Men's Power: The "New Man" and the Mexican Immigrant Man
- 20.. Child-Care Dilemmas in Contemporary Families
- Part VI.. New Forms of Family Diversity
- 21.. Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here; All Our Families Are Queer; Let's Get Used to It!
- 22.. African American Lesbians: Issues in Couples Therapy
- 23.. Social Construction of Mary Beth Whitehead
- 24.. Comment on Harrison: The Commodification of Motherhood
- 25.. Resolving "Other" Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals
- 26.. Use of African-American Family Structures and Functioning to Address the Challenges of European-American Postdivorce Families
- Part VII.. Recognizing Diversity, Encouraging Solidarity
- 27.. Poverty, Social Rights, and the Quality of Citizenship
- 28.. The Case for a Race-Specific Policy
- 29.. The Family Values Fable
- Selected Bibliography of Recent Sources
- Permissions Acknowledgments
