American families : a multicultural reader / edited by Stephanie Coontz ; with Maya Parson and Gabrielle Raley.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Coontz, Stephanie
Parson, Maya
Raley, Gabrielle
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Families > United States.
Multiculturalism > United States.
Ethnicity > United States.
Work and family > United States.
Physical Description:viii, 475 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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 / Bonnie Thornton Dill
  • 2. Excerpts from Education for extinction : American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928 / David Wallace Adams
  • 3. Excerpt from Born a child of freedom, yet a slave, "The threat of sale : the black family as a mechanism of control" / Norrece T. Jones Jr.
  • 4. Split household, small producer, and dual wage earner : an analysis of Chinese-American family strategies / Evelyn Nakano Glenn
  • 5. Excerpt from Huck's raft, "Laboring children" / Steven Mintz
  • 6. Excerpts from Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 / George J. Sánchez
  • 7. Excerpt from Interracial intimacy : the regulation of race & romance, "Antimiscegenation laws and the enforcement of racial boundaries" Rachel F. Moran
  • 8. Race, class, and reproductive politics in American history / Rickie Solinger
  • 9. Excerpt from Ensuring inequality : the structural transformation of the African-American family, "World War II and its aftermath" / Donna L. Franklin
  • II. Race, ethnicity, class, and gender in family theory
  • 10. Shifting the center : race, class, and feminist theorizing about motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins
  • 11. Family and class in contemporary America : notes toward an understanding of ideology / Rayna Rapp
  • 12. Toward a unified theory of class, race, and gender / Karen Brodkin Sacks
  • 13. Immigrant families in the US / Karen Pyke
  • 14. Diversity within Latino families : new lessons for family social science / Maxine Baca Zinn, Barbara Wells
  • 15. Intersectionality and working-family studies / Stephen R. Marks, Leigh A. Leslie
  • III. Global households : globalization, immigration, and family life
  • 16. "Management of stress," the reorganization of work hits home / Sarah Ryan
  • 17. Excerpts from Families on the fault line : America's working class speaks about the family, the economy, race, and ethnicity / Lillian B. Rubin
  • 18. Migrant Filipina domestic workers and the international division of reproductive labor / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
  • 19. Excerpt from Asian American youth : culture, identity, and ethnicity, "The making of culture, identity, and ethnicity among Asian American youth" / Min Zhou, Jennifer Lee
  • 20. Gender displays and men's power : the "new man" and the Mexican immigrant man / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael A. Messner
  • 21. Migration and Vietnamese American women : remaking ethnicity / Nazli Kibria
  • IV. Life at the margins : families in extreme poverty
  • 22. Poverty in the era of welfare reform : the "underclass" family in myth and reality / Thomas J. Sugrue
  • 23. Avenue to adulthood : teenage pregnancy and the meaning of motherhood in poor communities / Gabrielle Raley
  • 24. Mothering through recruitment : kinscription of nonresidential fathers and father figures in low-income families / Kevin Roy, Linda Burton
  • 25. Windfall child rearing : low-income care and consumption / Allison J. Pugh
  • 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 / David Cotter, Paula England, Joan Hermsen
  • 27. A war against boys? / Michael Kimmel
  • 28. Diversity among same-sex couples and their children / Gary Gates
  • 29. Excerpts from Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life / Annette Lareau
  • 30. A black feminist reflection on the antiviolence movement / Beth E. Richie
  • 31. Intimacy, desire, and the construction of self in relationships between Asian American women and white American men / Kumiko Nemoto
  • 32. Excerpts from Beyond black : biracial identity in American / Kerry Ann Rockquemore, David L. Brunsma
  • 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 / Naomi Gerstel, Natalia Sarkisian
  • 34. Work and American families : diverse needs, common solutions / Jerry A. Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson.