| |
| |
Contributors | |
| |
| |
Preface | |
| |
| |
Minority Families in America: An Introduction | |
| |
| |
| |
Minority Families and the "New Darwinism" | |
| |
| |
Minority Families and the Structure of Inequality | |
| |
| |
Minority Families and the Theory of Intrinsic Difference | |
| |
| |
Organization and Focus | |
| |
| |
| |
African American Families in the United States | |
| |
| |
| |
Black American Families | |
| |
| |
| |
Black Family Life in Historical Perspective | |
| |
| |
Contemporary Black Family Patterns | |
| |
| |
Selected Patterns and Trends | |
| |
| |
Living Arrangements of Children and Youth | |
| |
| |
Family Structure and Family Dynamics | |
| |
| |
Black Families and Social Change | |
| |
| |
| |
West Indian Families in the United States | |
| |
| |
| |
Introduction | |
| |
| |
Data Collected | |
| |
| |
West Indian Migration | |
| |
| |
Household and Family | |
| |
| |
Social Arrangements | |
| |
| |
Sexual Exclusivity | |
| |
| |
The Impact of Migration | |
| |
| |
The Maintainers | |
| |
| |
The Social Isolates | |
| |
| |
The Strivers | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
Headquarters and Subsidiaries: Haitian Immigrant Family Households In New York City | |
| |
| |
| |
Phases of Haitian Mass Immigration into the United States | |
| |
| |
The Sending Family Household as a Headquarters-Firm | |
| |
| |
The Immigrant Family Household as a Subsidiary Firm | |
| |
| |
The Model | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
Hispanic American Families in the United States | |
| |
| |
| |
Tradition and Transition in Mexican-Origin Families | |
| |
| |
| |
Mexican Family History in the Southwest | |
| |
| |
Old and New Perspectives | |
| |
| |
Global Reorganization and Family Upheavals | |
| |
| |
Selected Patterns and Trends | |
| |
| |
Family Structure and Family Dynamics | |
| |
| |
What We Learn from Mexican-Origin Families | |
| |
| |
| |
The Puerto Rican Family | |
| |
| |
| |
The Traditional Puerto Rican Family | |
| |
| |
The Contemporary Puerto Rican Family in the United States | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
Cuban American Families | |
| |
| |
| |
The Cuban Family in the Early Communities | |
| |
| |
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 and Cuban Migration to the United States | |
| |
| |
Characteristics of Cubans and Cuban Families in the United States | |
| |
| |
The Family and the Cuban Success Story | |
| |
| |
Marital Instability | |
| |
| |
Acculturation, the New Generation, and Social Change | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
Asian American Families in the United States | |
| |
| |
| |
Chinese American Families | |
| |
| |
| |
Historical Background | |
| |
| |
Contemporary Trends | |
| |
| |
Conclusions: Revisioning the Chinese American Family | |
| |
| |
| |
Japanese American Families | |
| |
| |
| |
Cultural versus Critical Perspectives on Japanese American Families | |
| |
| |
Historical Development of the Japanese American Family | |
| |
| |
Contemporary Japanese American Families | |
| |
| |
Conclusions | |
| |
| |
| |
Vietnamese American Families | |
| |
| |
| |
The Vietnamese Exodus | |
| |
| |
Demographic Trends | |
| |
| |
Households and Extended Family | |
| |
| |
Family Roles and Authority | |
| |
| |
Conclusions | |
| |
| |
| |
Korean American Families | |
| |
| |
| |
Immigration and Settlement | |
| |
| |
Family Characteristics | |
| |
| |
Marital Relations | |
| |
| |
Child Socialization and Generational Conflicts | |
| |
| |
Generational Differences in the Family Systems | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
Rules, Role, and Realities: Indo-American Families in the United States | |
| |
| |
| |
Rules and Realities: Who Are in a Family? | |
| |
| |
Family Dynamics | |
| |
| |
Ideal Versus Real Families | |
| |
| |
Parental Roles | |
| |
| |
Roles and Realities Between Generations | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
Native American Families in the United States | |
| |
| |
| |
American Indian Families | |
| |
| |
| |
The Demography of American Indian Families | |
| |
| |
Family Structure and Economic Well-Being | |
| |
| |
Marriage with Non-Indians | |
| |
| |
Studies of American Indian Families | |
| |
| |
Role, Status, and Authority in the Family | |
| |
| |
Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
Minority Families and Social Change | |
| |
| |
| |
Minority Families and Social Change | |
| |
| |
| |
Minority Families: Change and Adaptation | |
| |
| |
African Americans and the Diversification of Family Life | |
| |
| |
Hispanic Minority Families: Structure and Process | |
| |
| |
Asian American Families: Patterns and Variations | |
| |
| |
Native American Families: Patterns of Adaptation and Change | |
| |
| |
Concluding Remarks | |
| |
| |
Index | |