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Complex ethnic households in America / edited by Laurel Schwede, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Anna Y. Chan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--United States--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Minorities.
- Ethnology--United States--Case studies.
- Ethnology.
- Households--United States--Case studies.
- Households.
- Families--United States--Case studies.
- Families.
- Ethnic relations.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020--Case studies.
- United States--Ethnic relations--Case studies.
- Household surveys--United States.
- Household surveys.
- United States--Census.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Census data.
- Physical Description:
- x, 323 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]
- Summary:
- What commonalities link Navajos in their vast Arizona reservation and rural whites in upstate New York? More than you would 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-Navajos, whites, Inupiat of Alaska, African Americans in urban coastal Virginia, 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 United States.
- Contents:
- 1 The Way We Live: Complex Ethnic Households in America / Anna Y. Chan 1
- 2 The First Arrivals: Navajo and Inupiaq Eskimos / Laurel Schwede, Rae Lesser Blumberg 21
- 3 I Live Here and I Stay There: Navajo Perceptions of Households on the Reservation / Nancy E. Tongue 39
- 4 Household Adaptive Strategies among the Inupiat / Amy Craver 94
- 5 The Recent Arrivals: Latinos and Koreans / Rae Lesser Blumberg, Laurel Schwede 116
- 6 Household Structure and Its Social and Economic Functions among Korean American Immigrants in Queens, New York: An Ethnographic Study / Tai S. Kang 126
- 7 Making Ends Meet: The Complex Household as a Temporary Survival Strategy among New Latino Immigrants to Virginia / Patricia L. Goerman 149
- 8 African Americans and Whites / Laurel Schwede, Rae Lesser Blumberg 181
- 9 African American Households in Transition: Structure, Culture, and Self-definition / Bernadette J. Holmes 196
- 10 Not the Typical Household: Whites in Rural New York / Jennifer Hunter Childs 217
- 11 Gender, Economy, and Kinship in Complex Households among Six U.S. Ethnic Groups: Who Benefits? Whose Kin? Who Cares? / Rae Lesser Blumberg 248
- 12 Who Lives Here? Complex Ethnic Households in America / Laurel Schwede 280.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0742546365
- 0742546373
- OCLC:
- 60796145
- Publisher Number:
- 9780742546370
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