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  • The Second Generation

    Ethnic Identity among Asian Americans

    by Pyong Gap Min, Yen Le Espiritu, Hung C. Thai, Sharmila Rudrappa, Bangele D. Alsaybar, Pyong Gap Min & Rose Kim, Nazli Kibria, Mia Tuan ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans
    In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural barriers have a powerful influence on the formation of ethnic identities in a strongly racialized ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Insufficient Funds

    The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families

    by Hung Cam Thai ...
    Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their poor, non-migrant family members give, receive, and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Insufficient Funds

    The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families

    by Hung Cam Thai ...
    Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their poor, non-migrant family members give, receive, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    #1 New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, poignant quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—in It’s All Relative, a “thought-provoking…delightful, easy-to-read, informative book” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Perfect Madness

    Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

    by Judith Warner ...
    A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parentingWhat is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands.When ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Circulation of Children

    Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru

    by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light, the practice is a violation of international norms regarding children’s rights, guidelines that the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Skeletons in the Closet

    A Sociological Analysis of Family Conflicts

    Edited by Aysan Sev’er, Jan E. Trost ...
    Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study. In Skeletons in the Closet, and in line with feminist research methodologies, the hierarchical distance between researcher and subject is broken down. All of the contributors to this volume are academics, and all are closely related to the families they write ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Violence in the Home

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    by Karel Kurst-Swanger, Jacqueline L. Petcosky ...
    Violence in the home is one of the most damaging and widespread of social problems. It is an issue that cuts across all socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, gender, and age boundaries. This important book reviews the most current theoretical explanations of family violence and then links theory to practice. It looks at the systems and institutions that interact with families, which are mandated to ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Motives in Children's Development

    Cultural-Historical Approaches

    Edited by Mariane Hedegaard, Anne Edwards, Marilyn Fleer ...
    The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Home in the City

    Urban Aboriginal Housing and Living Conditions

    by Alan B. Anderson ...
    During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and Métis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living conditions, issues, and trends. Based on extensive research, including interviews with more than three thousand residents, it allows for the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Parental Stress and Early Child Development

    Adaptive and Maladaptive Outcomes

    Edited by Kirby Deater-Deckard, Robin Panneton ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines the complex impact of parenting stress and the effects of its transmission on young children’s development and well-being (e.g., emotion self-regulation; executive functioning; maltreatment; future parenting practices). It analyzes current findings on acute and chronic psychological and socioeconomic stressors affecting parents, including those associated with poverty and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools

    Edited by Annette Lareau, Kimberly Goyette ...
    A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide where to send their children to school. In theory, the boom in standardized test scores and charter schools will allow parents to evaluate their assigned neighborhood school, or move in search of a better option. But what kind of data do parents actually use while choosing schools? Are there differences among ... Read more

    $43.19 USD