Race and Family: A Structural Approach - Hardcover

Race and Family offers one of the most comprehensive explorations of family life I have encountered in my decades of teaching family courses. Professor Coles describes her book as providing an integrated structural approach to understanding families, and it succeeds in moving seamlessly across time, cultures, and nationalities to explain how historic and economic forces shape families. Using an engaging writing style, the book explores topics ranging from cross-national differences in gender relations to processes of acculturation among immigrant families. While the title Race and Family does aptly describe the book's focus, it almost belies the richness and scope of its contents. -- Shirley A. Hill, University of Kansas In this updated edition of Race and Family, Roberta L. Coles provides readers with tools to analyze, contextualize, and more fully understand the experiences of families of color in the United States and does so with straightforward writing, engaging examples, and explanations that make sophisticated theoretical arguments accessible and clear. -- Erin N. Winkler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Race and Family is a comprehensive introduction to the diverse literature on race, ethnicity, and culture as it relates to family. The book does a respectable job of guiding readers through the minefields created by historical and contemporary political controversies surrounding the ways that family is thought about in relationship to race, social class, culture, immigration, and gender. -- Paul Rosenblatt, University of Minnesota A very useful book as a companion text for courses on race and ethnicity. . . . The chapters are easy to follow for undergraduate students. -- Renxin Yang, Northern Michigan University

The second edition of Race and Family maintains the book's distinctive feature-its structural lens-while featuring new material throughout. Race and Family focuses on demographic, economic, and historical-legal factors that impact all families, though often disparately. The text also includes separate chapters focusing on the histories and diversity within each major racial-ethnic group