American Families: A Multicultural Reader Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	The American Tradition of Family Diversity
1	Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival	2
2	Excerpts from Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928	20
3	Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization	59
4	Split Household, Small Producer, and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies	74
5	Working-Class Families, 1870-1890	94
6	Excerpts from Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945	128
7	Southern Diaspora: Origins of the Northern "Underclass"	153
Pt. II	Integrating Race, Class, and Gender into Family Theory
8	Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes toward an Understanding of Ideology	180
9	Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood	197
10	Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender	218
11	Social Science Theorizing for Latino Families in the Age of Diversity	230
Pt. III	Working-Class and Inner-City Families under Economic Stress
12	Poor Families in an Era of Urban Transformation: The "Underclass" Family in Myth and Reality	243
13	No Good Choices: Teenage Childbearing, Concentrated Poverty, and Welfare Reform	258
14	Excerpts from Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity	273
Pt. IV	Globalization and Today's Immigrant Families
15	Women and Children First: New Directions in Anti-immigrant Politics	288
16	Global Exchange: The World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the Global Trade in Filipina Workers	305
17	Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity	318
Pt. V	Work-Family Issues
18	Management by Stress: The Reorganization of Work Hits Home in the 1990s	332
19	Gender Displays and Men's Power: The "New Man" and the Mexican Immigrant Man	342
20	Child-Care Dilemmas in Contemporary Families	359
Pt. VI	New Forms of Family Diversity
21	Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here: All Our Families Are Queer: Let's Get Used to It!	372
22	African American Lesbians: Issues in Couples Therapy	406
23	Social Construction of Mary Beth Whitehead	425
24	Comment on Harrison: The Commodification of Motherhood	435
25	Resolving "Other" Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals	439
26	Use of African-American Family Structures and Functioning to Address the Challenges of European-American Postdivorce Families	455
Pt. VII	Recognizing Diversity, Encouraging Solidarity
27	Poverty, Social Rights, and the Quality of Citizenship	470
28	The Case for a Race-Specific Policy	478
29	The Family Values Fable	487
	Selected Bibliography of Recent Sources	491
	Permissions Acknowledgments	500