SOC 3371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homicide, Intersectionality, Total Fertility Rate
12 Nov 2020
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Figure 5. 3: percentages of family households that are extended (contain relatives other. Than parents and their children), by family income, for african americans and whites, 2004. Women face additional disadvantages: earnings gap, victims of domestic violence. Intersectionality of black women"s experience: extent to which a black woman"s life is affected by overlapping systems of class, racial, and gender-based disadvantage. Middle-class black families have expanded greatly since the 1960s: educational statistics show great improvement, tend to have less money in assets, which affects the probability of marriage, experience an inbetweenness. Black churches are a great source of social support and serve as mediating structures: mediating structures: midlevel social institutions and groupings. There is as much variation within the group as between hispanics and other groups: americans of mexican origin constitute 63 percent of all hispanics, puerto rican americans, cuban americans, fourth largest group.
