Complex Ethnic Households in America

Laurel Schwede is a research social scientist in the Statistical Research Division at the U.S. Census Bureau.Rae Lesser Blumberg is the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.Anna Y. Chan is a research social scientist in the Statistical Research Division at the U.S. Census Bureau.

This is a gem of a book. It not only makes a significant contribution to scholarship, but is enjoyable to read. With its unusual combination of ethnography, demography, and theoretical insights, the book would be useful in a variety of courses?includingethnic studies, anthropology, demography, and especially, the sociology of the family. Further, it contains an important message for social scientists, policy makers, and others who take it for granted that census bureau classifications of household andfamily structure and relationships are hard, objective data, valid for the entire population...

• Chapter 1 The Way We Live: Complex Ethnic Households in AmericaChapter 2 The First Arrivals: Navajo and Inupiaq EskimosChapter 3 I Live Here and I Stay There: Navajo Perceptions of Households on the ReservationChapter 4 Household Adaptive Strategies among the InupiatChapter 5 The Recent Arrivals: Latinos and KoreansChapter 6 Household Structure and Its Social and Economic Functions among Korean American Immigrants in Queens, New York: An Ethnographic StudyChapter 7 Making Ends Meet: The Complex Household as a Temporary Survival Strategy among New Latino Immigrants to VirginiaChapter 8 The African Americans and WhitesChapter 9 African American Households in Transition: Structure, Culture, and Self-definitionChapter 10 Not the Typical Household: Whites in Rural New YorkChapter 11 Gender, Economy, and Kinship in Complex Households among Six U.S. Ethnic Groups:Who Benefits? Whose Kin? Who Cares?Chapter 12 Who Lives Here? Complex Ethnic Households in America