Complex Ethnic Households in America

by Schwede, Laurel; Blumberg, Rae Lesser; Chan, Anna Y.; Craver, Amy; Goerman, Patricia L.; Holmes, Bernadette J.; Childs, Jennifer Hunter; Kang, Tai S.; Schwede, Laurie; Tongue, Nancy E.

• ISBN13: 9780742546363
• ISBN10: 0742546365
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This lively interdisciplinary book on complex households in six U.S. ethnic groups uniquely combines rich ethnographic description conveying the sights and smells of fieldwork with theory-linked overviews and Census 2000 data. It explores interactions of household structure, ethnicity and gender, also illuminating factors affecting formation and dissolution of complex households, which are increasingly important as family and ethnic diversity - and immigration - grow. It's valuable for student and professional sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, research methodologists, policymakers and interested public.

Table of Contents

The way we live : complex ethnic households in America	p. 1
The first arrivals : Navajo and Inupiaq Eskimos	p. 21
I live here and I stay there : Navajo perceptions of households on the reservation	p. 39
Household adaptive strategies among the Inupiat	p. 94
The recent arrivals : Latinos and Koreans	p. 116
Household structure and its social and economic functions among Korean American immigrants in Queens, New York : an ethnographic study	p. 126
Making ends meet : the complex household as a temporary survival strategy among new Latino immigrants to Virginia	p. 149
African Americans and whites	p. 181
African American households in transition : structure, culture, and self-definition	p. 196
Not the typical household : whites in rural New York	p. 217
Gender, economy, and kinship in complex households among six U.S. ethnic groups : who benefits? whose kin? who cares?	p. 248
Who lives here? : complex ethnic households in America	p. 280
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