{"product_id":"race-and-family-9781442254374","title":"Race and Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second edition of Race and Family maintains the book's distinctive featureintroducing students to key concepts through a structural lenswhile 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 n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRace 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\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003eRace 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\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrief 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","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039950340439,"sku":"9781442254374","price":119.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442254374.jpg?v=1750945335","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-and-family-9781442254374","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}