No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks
Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano and Puerto-Rican families in the United States, and provides an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race and class oppression affects minority family organization.

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No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks
Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano and Puerto-Rican families in the United States, and provides an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race and class oppression affects minority family organization.

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No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks

No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks

by Anne R. Roschelle
No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks

No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks

by Anne R. Roschelle

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Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano and Puerto-Rican families in the United States, and provides an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race and class oppression affects minority family organization.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761901587
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 04/21/1997
Series: Understanding Families series , #8
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

The Cultural Context of Care
The Structural Context of Care
The Culture-Structure Nexus
Race, Class and Gender
Modeling the Intersections
A New Context Emerges
Takin' Care
The Role of Women
Helping Out
The Role of Men
No More Kin
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