Complex ethnic households in America / edited by Laurel Schwede, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Anna Y. Chan. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005. - x, 323 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The way we live : complex ethnic households in America / Anna Y. Chan -- The first arrivals : Navajo and InÌupiaq Eskimos / Laurel Schwede and Rae Lesser Blumberg -- I live here and I stay there : Navajo perceptions of households on the reservation / Nancy E. Tongue -- Household adaptive strategies among the InÌupiat / Amy Carver -- The recent arrivals : Latinos and Koreans / Rae Lesser Blumberg and Laurel Schwede -- Household structure and its social and economic functions among Korean American immigrants in Queens, New York : an ethnographic study / Tai S. Kang -- Making ends meet : the complex household as a temporary survival strategy among new Latino immigrants to Virginia / Patricia L. Goerman -- African Americans and whites / Laurel Schwede and Rae Lesser Blumberg -- African American households in transition : structure, culture, and self-definition / Bernadette J. Holmes -- Not the typical household : whites in rural New York / Jennifer Hunter Childs -- Gender, economy, and kinship in complex households among six U.S. ethnic groups : who benefits? Whose kin? Who cares? / Rae Lesser Blumberg -- Who lives here? Complex ethnic households in America / Laurel Schwede.

0742546365 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742546373 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780742546370

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Minorities--Social conditions--United States--Case studies.
Ethnology--United States--Case studies.
Households--United States--Case studies.
Family--United States--Case studies.
Household surveys--United States.


United States--Social conditions--1980---Case studies.
United States--Ethnic relations--Case studies.
United States--Census.

E184.A1 / C65 2005

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