SOC 120CDWI Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intersectionality, Homicide, Cuban Americans
3 Dec 2016
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Racial-ethnic group: people who share a common identity and whose members think of themselves as distinct from others by virtue of ancestry, culture, and sometimes. Great differences in family structure by racial ethnic groups. Constructing racial-ethnic groups physical characteristic: hispanic: latin american ancestry. No o(cid:448)erall (cid:862)asia(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:272)ategor(cid:455) i(cid:374) 2000 (cid:272)e(cid:374)sus. As many variations in family patterns within subgroups as non-hispanics. United states is structured around five racial-ethnic groups. Do non-hispanic whites have an ethnicity? (cid:862)white(cid:374)ess(cid:863) as eth(cid:374)i(cid:272)it(cid:455: most derived from european immigrants, did not rely on kin as much for support, whiteness is not an inherent characteristic of people. Economic ups and downs during last half of 20th century had profound effect on these families: especially on lower and working class black families, men and women reluctant to marry. Decline in marriage rates: more likely than whites to weigh economic considerations, effects of welfare on marriage, may play lesser role in african american families than other families.
