Table of Contents

Introduction.
The Changing Ethnic Profile of U.S. Families in the Twenty-First Century, Nijole V. Benokraitis.

1. Socialization and Family Values.
Socialization Concerns in African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latino Families, Ross D. Parke and Raymond Buriel. African American Family Values, Ramona W. Denby. Filipino American Culture and Family Values, Pauline Agbayani-Siewart. Taiwanese American Family Values and Socialization, Franklin Ng. Grandmother to Granddaughter: Learning to Be a Dakota Woman, Angela Cavender Wilson.

2. Gender Roles.
Behind, beside, in front of Him? Black Women Talk about Their Men, Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Grappling with Changing Gender Roles in Dominican American Families, Patricia R. Pessar. Appropriate Gender Roles in Vietnamese American Families, Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston. Coping with Gender Role Strains in Korean American Families, Moon H. Jo. To Be an Asian Indian Woman in America, Monisha Das Gupta.

3. Cohabitation, Marriage, and Intermarriage.
Black Couples and the “Big C”: The Ring, the Ceremony, Forever, Denene Millner and Nick Chiles. Asian Indian Marriages-Arranged, SemiArranged, or Based on Love?, Johanna Lessinger. Changes in Marital Satisfaction in Three Generations of Mexican Americans, Kyriakos S. Markides, Jan Roberts-Jolly, Laura A. Ray, Sue K. Hoppe, and Laura Rudkin. Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Chinese and Korean Americans, Nazli Kibria. Turkish American Intermarriage, Barbara Bilgé.

4. Parenting.
Fathers' Child-Rearing Involvement in African American, Latino, and White Families, John F. Toth Jr. and Xiaohe Xu. Parenting in Middle-Class Black Families, Susan D. Toliver. Las Comadres as a Parenting Support System, Rebecca A. López. Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Gay and Lesbian Children, Alice Y. Hom. Parenting and the Stress of Immigration among Jordanian Mothers, Marianne Hattar Pollara and Afaf I. Meleis.

5. Work Experiences, Discrimination, and Family Life.
Some Benefits and Costs of Black Dual-Career Commuter Marriages, Anita P. Jackson, Ronald P. Brown, and Karen E. Patterson-Stewart. Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs: “You Have to Prove Yourself More”, Denise A. Segura. Struggling to Succeed: Haitians in South Florida, Alex Stepiek. Central American Workers: New Roles in a New Landscape, Terry A. Repak. Family and Traditional Values: The Bedrock of Chinese American Business, Bernard Wong.

6. The Impact of Social Class.
Are Ethnic and White Middle Classes Booming?, Alison Stein Wellner. Explaining Cuban Americans' Success, Roberto Suro. Puerto Rican Migrants: Juggling Family and Work Roles, Maura I. Toro-Morn. Living Poor: Family Life among Single Parent African American Women, Robin L. Jarrett. Social Class, Interaction, and Perceptions about Other Ethnic Groups: The Case of Korean Americans, Kyeyoung Park.

7. Violence and Other Family Crises.
Risk-Taking Behavior among American Indian, Black, and White Adolescents, Enid Gruber, Ralph J. DiClemente, and Martin M. Anderson. Intergenerational Conflict, Acculturation, and Drug Use among Asian Indian Adolescents, Gauri Bhattacharya. Eating Problems among African American, Latina, and White Women, Becky W. Thompson. Domestic Violence in African American, Asian American, and Latino Communities, Doris Williams Campbell, Beckie Masaki, and Sara Torres. Mistreatment of Vietnamese Elderly by Their Families in the United States, Quyen Kim Le.

8. Marital Conflict, Divorce, and Remarriage.
Divorce and Iranian Immigrants' Attitudes about Gender Roles and Marriage, Mohammadreza Hojat, Reza Shapurian, Danesh Foroughi, Habib Nayerahmadi, Mitra Farzaneh, Mahmood Shafieyan, and Mohin Parsi. Separation and Divorce in Brazilian Immigrant Families, Maxine L. Margolis. Black Men and the Divorce Experience, Erma Jean Lawson and Aaron Thompson. Divorce Mediation among Asian Americans, Roger R. Wong. Latino Fathers and the Child Support Enforcement Experience, Kimberly A. Folse.

9. Grandparenting, Aging, and Family Caregiving.
Sixty-Five Plus in the United States, Robert Bernstein. Intergenerational Assistance within the Mexican American Family, Tracy L. Dietz. Elder Care in Pueblo Indian Families, Catherine Hagan Hennessy and Robert John. Black Grandmothers Raising Their Grandchildren, Antoinette Y. Rodgers-Farmer and Rosa L. Jones. Variations in Asian Grandparenting, Yoshinori Kamo.

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About the Author

Nijole V. Benokraitis received her Ph.D. is sociology from the University of Texas, Austin. She is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Baltimore. Dr. Benokraitis has authored, coauthored, edited, or coedited Feuds about Families: Conservative, Centrist, Liberal, and Feminist Perspectives; Subtle Sexism: Current Practices and Prospects for Change; Marriages and Families: Changes, Choices and Constraints (3d ed.); Modern Sexism: Blatant, Subtle, and Covert Discrimination (2d ed.); Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology (5th ed.); and Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity: Action, Inaction, and Reaction. She is a member of the editorial board of Women and Criminal Justice, reviews manuscripts for several periodicals, and has published numerous journal articles in the areas of institutional racism, discrimination in government and higher education, and social policy. She has for some time served as a consultant in the areas of sex and race discrimination to women's commissions, business groups, colleges and universities, and state and federal government programs.