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Race and Family: A Structural Approach

Race and Family: A Structural Approach

Coles, Roberta L.

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0761988645
ISBN13: 9780761988649
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: Jul 25 2005
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The author provided interesting, original examples which I found engaging. . . . I think the biggest strength is avoiding the ′one ethnicity per chapter′ approach found in so many books on family diversity. I like the structural approach.
- Hilary A. Rose, Concordia University

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

I think the book is needed because there are limited choices currently available and this book is moving in the right direction....A strength is that it is not an edited book like so many other books on this topic. There is a need for detailed study of ethnic minority families, and I am excited about making this book my required text for my Ethnic Families Course.
- Cheryl Burgan Evans, Miami University

I find the emphasis on social structure particularly appealing. To date, I have used Taylor′s [edited] book, which depends on the instructor to provide all of the integration.
- Gretchen Cornwell, Pennsylvania State University

In Race and Family: A Structural Approach, author Roberta L. Coles looks at ethnic minority families in a novel way-- through a structural lens. Unlike many texts on race and family, this book offers an approach that illustrates overarching structural factors affecting all families as opposed to examining each ethnicity in isolation from one another. By focusing on various structural factors such as demographic, economic, and historical aspects, this book analyzes various family trends in a cross-cutting manner to exemplify the similarities and distinctions among all racial and ethnic groups.

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