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Race and Family Roberta L. Coles

Race and Family By Roberta L. Coles

Race and Family by Roberta L. Coles


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Race and Family is a textbook that introduces students to key concepts through a structural lens. Rather than examining each racial/ethnic group in isolation like many race and family textbooks, Race and Family illustrates overarching structural factors that affect all families, such as economic factors, demographic factors, and gender relations.

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Race and Family: A Structural Approach by Roberta L. Coles

The second edition of Race and Family maintains the book's distinctive feature-introducing students to key concepts through a structural lens-while featuring new material throughout. Race and Family focuses on structural factors impacting all families, such as demographic, economic, and historic trends, which illuminate the similarities and distinctions among and within racial and ethnic groups. After introductions to the study of race, ethnicity, and the family, the book explores various issues such as family structure, divorce, non-marital births, gender roles, racial identity formation, intergenerational roles, grandparenting, care of elders, and more. The book offers specific chapters on racial-ethnic groups including African American, Asian American, Latino American, Middle Eastern American, and Native American, while also discussing white families, multiracial families, the acculturation process, and more. Key updates to the second edition include recent census and survey data, a new chapter on Middle Eastern Americans, new material on multiracial and multicultural families, updated resources, and more. The second edition of Race and Family is a comprehensive introduction to race and family through a distinctive structural lens. The book provides structural factors, cross-cultural perspectives, and historical overviews that students can use to analyze the whys and ways of family across races and ethnicities. A complimentary test bank is available to adopters as a Word document or via the free program Respondus. Email [email protected] for further details.

Race and Family Reviews

Race and Family offers one of the most comprehensive explorations of family life I have encountered in my decades of teaching family courses. Professor Coles describes her book as providing an integrated structural approach to understanding families, and it succeeds in moving seamlessly across time, cultures, and nationalities to explain how historic and economic forces shape families. Using an engaging writing style, the book explores topics ranging from cross-national differences in gender relations to processes of acculturation among immigrant families. While the title Race and Family does aptly describe the book's focus, it almost belies the richness and scope of its contents. -- Shirley A. Hill, University of Kansas
In this updated edition of Race and Family, Roberta L. Coles provides readers with tools to analyze, contextualize, and more fully understand the experiences of families of color in the United States and does so with straightforward writing, engaging examples, and explanations that make sophisticated theoretical arguments accessible and clear. -- Erin N. Winkler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Race and Family is a comprehensive introduction to the diverse literature on race, ethnicity, and culture as it relates to family. The book does a respectable job of guiding readers through the minefields created by historical and contemporary political controversies surrounding the ways that family is thought about in relationship to race, social class, culture, immigration, and gender. -- Paul Rosenblatt, University of Minnesota
A very useful book as a companion text for courses on race and ethnicity. . . . The chapters are easy to follow for undergraduate students. -- Renxin Yang, Northern Michigan University

About Roberta L. Coles

Roberta L. Coles is professor of sociology at Marquette University. She specializes in the study of family and is the author of The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers and coeditor of The Myth of the Missing Black Father.

Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents 1. Introduction Overview of the Text Discussion of Key Concepts Resources 2. Approaching the Study of Race and Family Economic Factors Demographic Factors Historical-Legal Factors Resources 3. A Brief History of the American Family American Families through the Centuries Resources 4. Cross-Cultural Comparisons Social or Legal Marriage Marriage Types and Choices Marriage as a Family Affair Family Power Systems Family Functions Resources 5. Family Structures Prevalence of Family Structure from the Child's Perspective Pathways to Single Parenthood Advantages and Disadvantages of Family Structures Extended Family Households Nonfamily Households Resources 6. Gender Relations and Sex Ratios Gender Construction and Socialization Sex Ratios African American Gender Issues Native American Gender Issues Latina/o Gender Issues Asian American Gender Issues Domestic Violence Resources 7. Intergenerational Relationships: Parent and Child Individual and Communal Orientations Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Children's Well-Being Racial Socialization Resources 8 Intergenerational Relationships in Late Life: The Elderly, Their Adult Children, and Their Grandchildren Intergenerational Interaction Caregiving for the Ill Elderly Illness and Death Death Resources 9. African American Families How Did Slavery Shape Black American Families? African American Families after Slavery African American Families Today Resources 10. Native American Families Looking Back in History The State of American Indian Families Today Resources 11. Latino American Families Manner and Timing of Entry Effects of History and Immigration on Socioeconomic Status Familism and Cultural Commonalities Divergent Family Trends among Latino Ethnic Groups Resources 12. Asian American Families East Asians in America Southeast Asians in America Asian American Families Today Resources 13. Middle Eastern American Families Religions in the Middle East Their Immigration History Current Demographics and Family Life Resources 14. Acculturation and Multiracial Family Issues Acculturation Multiracial Issues Resources

Additional information

CIN1442254386G
9781442254381
1442254386
Race and Family: A Structural Approach by Roberta L. Coles
Used - Good
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2016-01-07
410
N/A
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