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Family Ethnicity
Strength in Diversity

Second Edition

April 1999 | 416 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Family ethnicity is the sum total of our ancestry and cultural dimensions: how families collectively identify the core of their beings. Our ethnicity is fundamental to the all-encompassing core of our identity. Families differentiate themselves from other groups and form linkages with families that assume similar identifications and provide reference groups for their members. Ethnicity involves the unique family customs, proverbs, and stories that are passed on for generations. Almost all of us are from families that are part of ethnicities. This new edition provides extensive information about the various cultural elements that different family groups have drawn on in order to exist in the United States today. In each chapter, the authors are intimately familiar with the particular groups, by way of membership in the group or intensive study of the group. The eight sections of the book cover Native American Indians, Native Hawaiian, Mexican American and Spanish, African American, Muslim American, and Asian American families.


 
PART ONE: FAMILY ETHNIC DIVERSITY
Harriette Pipes McAdoo
Families of Color
Strengths that Come from Diversity

 
Doris Wilkinson
Reframing Family Ethnicity in America
 
PART TWO: NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILIES
Suzan Shown Harjo
The American Indian Experience
LeAnne E Silvey
Firstborn American Indian Daughters
Struggles to Reclaim Cultural Self Identity

 
Walter T Kawamoto and Tamara C Cheshire
Contemporary Issues in the Urban American Indian Family
 
PART THREE: NATIVE HAWAIIAN FAMILIES
Lillian Aotaki Phenice
Native Hawaiian Families
 
PART FOUR: MEXICAN AMERICAN AND SPANISH-ORIGIN FAMILIES
Estella A Martínez
Mexican American/Chicano Families
Parenting as Diverse as the Families Themselves

 
Zulema E Suárez
Cuban Americans in Exile
Myths and Reality

 
Jaime Chahin, Francisco A Villarruel and Ruben Anguiano Viramontez
Dichos y Refranes
The Transmission of Cultural Values and Beliefs

 
 
PART FIVE: AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES
Shirley J Hatchett and James S Jackson
African American Extended Kin Systems
An Empirical Assessment in the National Survey of Black Americans

 
Niara Sudarkasa
African American Females as Primary Parents
 
PART SIX: MUSLIM AMERICAN FAMILIES
Bahira Sherif
Islamic Family Ideals and Their Relevance to American Muslim Families
Marsha T Carolan
Contemporary Muslim Women and the Family
 
PART SEVEN: ASIAN AMERICAN FAMILIES
Steven J Gold
Continuity and Change among Vietnamese Families in the United States
Chien Lin and William T Liu
Intergenerational Relationships among Chinese Immigrant Families from Taiwan
Young-Shi Ou and Harriette Pipes McAdoo
The Ethnic Socialization of Chinese American Children
Pyong Gap Min
Korean Immigrants' Marital Patterns and Marital Adjustments
 
PART EIGHT: SOCIAL PRACTICE WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR
Charlotte Tsoi Goodluck
Necessary Social Work Roles and Knowledge with Native Americans
Indian Child Welfare Act

 
Wynetta Devore and Harlan London
And How Are the Children? Diversity in Childhood Experiences
Harriette Pipes McAdoo
Family Ethnicity
Challenges for the 21st Century