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Minority Families in the United States: A Multicultural Perspective, 3/E
Ronald L. Taylor, University of Connecticut

ISBN-10: 0130165581
ISBN-13: 9780130165589

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 306 pp
Published: 12/17/2001

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For courses in Sociology of the Family, Minority Families, Family Development, and Ethnic Families.

Written by scholars who share an identity with the minority families they write about, this collection of essays offers a detailed description and analysis of the historical and contemporary forces that have shaped the structure and the role of social class and gender dynamics of the four dominant minority groups—African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American—and their sub-populations in the United States.

  • NEW - Includes two new chapters: Tradition and Transition in Mexican-Origin Families (Ch. 4) and Rules, Role, and Realities: Indo-American Families in the U.S. (Ch. 11).

    • Highlight the considerable diversity of family patterns within the broader minority group categories. Ex.___

  • Substantial introduction included.

    • Addresses many of the theoretical, conceptual, and substantive issues associated with minority status and family development. Ex.___

  • The four dominant minority groups—African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American—and their sub-populations in the United States are focused on.

    • Follows the same framework for discussing each group. Ex.___

  • The expertise of well-established minority scholars is drawn upon in the analyses of minority family patterns and experiences.

    • Presents insights, observations, and ideas that may be overlooked, ignored or unknown by scholars less familiar with some of the families. Ex.___

  • The multiracial/multicultural diversity of family patterns and dynamics considered.
  • The similarities and differences between groups as well as the considerable diversity (in values, beliefs, and cultural practices) the groups represent are emphasized.
  • Well-balanced treatment of the role of social class and gender as they bear on the behavior and attitudes of family members of minority groups.
  • A concluding chapter on minority groups and social change featured.

    • Examines contemporary demographic, economic, social and political trends and forces in the United States which are affecting the structure, internal dynamics, and lifestyles of these families and the nature of their adaptive responses. Ex.___

  • Includes two new chapters: Tradition and Transition in Mexican-Origin Families (Ch. 4) and Rules, Role, and Realities: Indo-American Families in the U.S. (Ch. 11).

    • Highlight the considerable diversity of family patterns within the broader minority group categories. Ex.___



Contributors.


Preface.


Minority Families in America: An Introduction, Ronald L. Taylor.

I. AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE U.S.

1. Black American Families, Ronald L. Taylor.

2. West Indian Families in the U.S., Robert E. Millette.

3. Headquarters and Subsidiaries: Haitian Immigrant Family Households in New York City, Michel S. Laguerre.

II. HISPANIC AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE U.S.

4. Tradition and Transition in Mexican-Origin Families, Maxine Baca Zinn and Angela Y.H. Pok.

5. The Puerto Rican Family, Hector Carrasquillo.

6. Cuban American Families, Lisandro Perez.

III. ASIAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES.

7. Chinese American Families, Evelyn Nakano Glenn with Stacey G.H. Yap.

8. Japanese American Families, Dana Y. Takagi.

9. Vietnamese Families, Nazli Kibria.

10. Korean American Families, Pyong Gap Min.

11. Rules, Role, and Realities: Indo-American Families in the U.S., Bandana Purkayastha.

IV. NATIVE AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES.

12. American Indian Families, Michael Yellowbird and C. Matthew Snipp.

V. MINORITY FAMILIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

13. Minority Families and Social Change, Ronald L. Taylor.

Index.

Ronald L. Taylor is Professor of Sociology and Vice Provost for Multicultural Affairs at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is coauthor and editor (with Doris Y. Wilkinson) of The Black Male in America: Perspectives on His Status in Contemporary Society (1977) and African American Youth: Their Social and Economic Status in the United States (1995). He has published widely on African American families, youth, and gender.

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