Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Second Edition
Part I. Who We Were: Diversity and Inequality in American Family History
1. Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, And Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival
Bonnie Thornton Dill
2. Excerpts from Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875&1928
David Wallace Adams
3. Excerpt from Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave, "The Threat of Sale: The Black Family as a Mechanism of Control"
Norrece T. Jones
4. Split Household, Small Producer, and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
5. Excerpt from Huck's Raft, "Laboring Children"
Steven Mintz
6. Excerpts from Becoming Mexican American Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1990&1945
George J. Sánchez
7. Excerpt from Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race & Romance
Rachel F. Moran
8. Race, Class, and Reproductive Politics in American History
Rickie Solinger
9. Excerpt from Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family
Donna L. Franklin
Part II. Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Family Theory
10. Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood
Patricia Hill Collins
11. Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes Toward an Understanding of Ideology
Rayna Rapp
12. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender
Karen Brodkin Sacks
13. Immigrant Families in the US
Karen Pyke
14. Diversity Within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science
Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells
15. Intersectionality and Work-Family Studies
Stephen R. Marks and Leigh A. Leslie
Part III. Global Households: Globalization, Immigration, and Family Life
16. "Management by Stress" -- The reorganization of work hits home
Sarah Ryan
17. Excerpts from Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity
Lillian B. Rubin
18. Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
19. Excerpt from Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity, "The Making of Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity among Asian American Youth"
Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee
20. Gender Displays and Men's Power: The "New Man" and the Mexican Immigrant Man
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner
21. Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity
Nazli Kibria
Part IV. Life at the Margins: Families in Extreme Poverty
22. Poverty in the Era of Welfare Reform: The "Underclass" Family in Myth and Reality
Thomas J. Sugrue
23. Avenue to Adulthood: Teenage Pregnancy and the Meaning of Motherhood in Poor Communities
Gabrielle Raley
24. Mothering Through Recruitment: Kinscription of Nonresidential Fathers and Father Figures in Low-Income Families
Kevin Roy and Linda Burton
25. Windfall Child Rearing: Low-income care and consumption
Alison J. Pugh
Part V. Revisioning Contemporary Family Issues through the Lens of Race, Ethnicity and Class
26. Moms and Jobs: Trends in Mothers' Employment and Which Mothers Stay Home
David Cotter, Paula England, and Joan Hermsen
27. A War Against Boys?
Michael Kimmel
28. Diversity among same-sex couples and their children
Gary Gates
29. Excerpts from Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Annette Lareau
30. A Black Feminist Reflection on the Antiviolence Movement
Beth E. Richie
31. Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships between Asian American Women and White American Men
Kumiko Nemoto
32. Excerpts from Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America
Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma
Part VI. Recognizing Diversity, Building Solidarity: Integrating Race and Class Issues into Public Policy
33. The Color of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender, and Extended Family Involvement
Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian
34. Work and American Families: Diverse Needs, Common Solutions
Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson
Selected Bibliography of Recent Sources
Permissions Acknowledgements
Index