McAdoo, Harriette P. (Ed.) : Michigan State University

Family ethnicity is the sum total of our ancestry and cultural dimensions: how families collectively identify the core of their beings. Our ethnicity is fundamental to the all-encompassing core of our identity. Families differentiate themselves from other groups and form linkages with families that assume similar identifications and provide reference groups for their members. Ethnicity involves the unique family customs, proverbs, and stories that are passed on for generations. Almost all of us are from families that are part of ethnicities. This new edition provides extensive information about the various cultural elements that different family groups have drawn on in order to exist in the United States today. In each chapter, the authors are intimately familiar with the particular groups, by way of membership in the group or intensive study of the group. The eight sections of the book cover Native American Indian, Native Hawaiian, Mexican American and Spanish, African American, Muslim American, and Asian American families.

Overview of Family Ethnicity H. P. McAdoo

I. Family Ethnic Diversity

1. Families of Color: Strengths That Come from Diversity H. P. McAdoo
2. Reappraising Family Ethnicity in America D. Wilkinson

II. Native American Indian Families

3. The American Indian Experience S. S. Harjo
4. Firstborn American Indian Daughters: Struggles to Reclaim Cultural Self Identity L. Silvey
5. Contemporary Issues in the Urban American Indian Family W. T. Kawamoto & T. C. Cheshire

III. Native Hawaiian Families

6. Native Hawaiian Families L. Phenice

IV. Mexican American and Spanish-Origin Families

7. Mexican American Chicano Family Parenting as Diverse as the Families Themselves E. A. Martinez
8. Cuban Americans: From Golden Exiles to Social Undesirable Z. E. Suarez
9. Dichos y Refranes: The Transmission of Cultural Values and Beliefs J. Chahin, F. A. Villarruel & R. A. Viramontez

V. African American Families

10. African American Extended Kin Systems: An Empirical Assessment in the National Survey of Black Americans S. Hatchett & J. Jackson
11. African American Females as Primary Parent N. Sudarkasa

VI. Muslim American Families

12. Islamic Family Ideals and Their Relevance to American Muslim Families B. Sherif
13. Contemporary Muslim Women and the Family M. T. Carolan

VII. Asian American Families

14. Continuity and Change Among Vietnamese Families in the United States S. J. Gold
15. Intergenerational Relationships Among Chinese Immigrant Families from Taiwan C. Lin & W. T. Liu
16. The Ethnic Socialization of Chinese American Children Y. Shi & H. P. McAdoo
17. Korean Immigrants� Marital Patterns and Marital Adjustments P. G. Min

VIII. Social Practice with People of Color

18. Necessary Social Work Roles and Knowledge with Native Americans: Indian Child Welfare Act C. T. Goodluck
19. And How Are the Children? Diversity in Childhood Experiences W. Devore & H. London
20. Family Ethnicity: Challenges for the 21st Century H. P. McAdoo

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