Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity

The meaning of family ethnicity is explored in this volume in relation to five major cultural groups in America -- African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Muslim Americans. While each group addresses a separate set of issues, all are faced with questions of relations with the majority culture, of assimilation versus accomodation and of poverty, inequality, isolation and discrimination.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - Harriette Pipes McAdoo PART ONE: FAMILY ETHNIC DIVERSITY Ethnic Families - Harriette Pipes McAdoo Strengths That Are Found in Diversity Family Ethnicity in America - Doris Wilkinson Race, Mortality, and Families - Edward L Kain PART TWO: AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES Female-Headed African American Households - Niara Sudarkasa Some Neglected Dimensions African American Extended Kin Systems - Shirley J Hatchett and James S Jackson An Assessment Decision Making and Self-Esteem in African American Families - John Lewis McAdoo The Impact of Economic Marginality Among African American Husbands and Fathers - Philip J Bowman PART THREE: MEXICAN AND SPANISH-ORIGIN AMERICAN FAMILIES Hispanic Families in the United States - Catherine Street Chilman Research Perspectives Cuban Americans - Zulema E Suárez From Golden Exiles to Social Undesirables Support of Hispanic Elderly - Juan J Paz Parenting Young Children in Mexican American/Chicano Families - Estella A Martinez PART FOUR: NATIVE AMERICAN FAMILIES The American Indian Experience - Suzan Shown Harjo Kinship and Political Change in Native American Tribes - Duane Champagne Social Services with Native Americans - Charlotte Tsoi Goodluck Current Status of the Indian Child Welfare Act PART FIVE: MUSLIM FAMILIES The Muslim Family in North America - Azim A Nanji Continuity and Change PART SIX: ASIAN AMERICAN FAMILIES Socialization of Chinese American Children - Young-Shi Ou and Harriette Pipes McAdoo Intergenerational Relationships Among Chinese Immigrant Families From Taiwan - Chien Lin and William T Liu Korean Immigrants′ Marital Patterns and Marital Adjustments - Pyong Gap Min Migration and Family Adjustment - Steven J Gold Continuity and Change Among Vietnamese in the United States PART SEVEN: PRACTICE WITH ETHNIC FAMILIES Ethnic Sensitivity for Practitioners - Wynetta Devore and Harlan London A Practice Model Family Ethnicity - Harriette Pipes McAdoo A Challenge for the Future

About the Author :
Harriette Pipes McAdoo is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, Department of Family and Child Ecology.  Previously, she was Professor at Howard University in the School of Social Work and Visiting Lecturer at Smith College, the University of Washington, and the University of Minnesota.  She is a Director of the Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family; was a National Adviser to the President of the White House Conference on Families; was former President and Board Member of the National Council on Family Relations; and was a member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development.  She was the first person honored by the National Council on Family Relations with the Marie Peters Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Leadership, and Service in the Area of Ethnic Minority Families.  Dr. McAdoo received her B.A. and M.A. from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and she has done post-doctoral studies at Harvard University.  She has published on racial attitudes and self-esteem in young children, Black mobility patterns, coping strategies of single mothers, and professional Kenyan women and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe.  She is editor of Black Children: Social, Educational, and Parental Environments, Second Edition (2002, SAGE) and Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity, Second Edition (1999, SAGE), as well as Young Families, Program Review, and Policy Recommendations.  She is coauthor of Women and Children, Alonge and in Poverty.  She has four children and four grandchildren.