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: 9780742546370
• ISBN10: 0742546373
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-02
• 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

Acknowledgments	ix
1 The Way We Live: Complex Ethnic Households in America	1	(20)
Anna Y. Chan
2 The First Arrivals: Navajo and Iñupiat Eskimos	21	(18)
Laurel Schwede and Rae Lesser Blumberg
3 I Live Here and I Stay There: Navajo Perceptions of Households on the Reservation	39	(55)
Nancy E. Tongue
4 Household Adaptive Strategies among the Ifiupiat	94	(22)
Amy Craver
5 The Recent Arrivals: Latinos and Koreans	116	(10)
Rae Lesser Blumberg and Laurel Schwede
6 Household Structure and Its Social and Economic Functions among Korean American Immigrants in Queens, New York: An Ethnographic Study	126	(23)
Tai S. Kang
7 Making Ends Meet: The Complex Household as a Temporary Survival Strategy among New Latino Immigrants to Virginia	149	(32)
Patricia L. Goerman
8 African Americans and Whites	181	(15)
Laurel Schwede and Rae Lesser Blumberg
9 African American Households in Transition: Structure, Culture, and Self-definition	196	(21)
Bernadette J. Holmes
10 Not the Typical Household: Whites in Rural New York	217	(31)
Jennifer Hunter Childs
11 Gender, Economy, and Kinship in Complex Households among Six U.S. Ethnic Groups: Who Benefits? Whose Kin? Who Cares?	248	(32)
Rae Lesser Blumberg
12 Who Lives Here? Complex Ethnic Households in America	280	(41)
Laurel Schwede
About the Contributors	321