Family is a diverse and complicated concept in which many researchers have come up with different conclusions. Family definition is not complete without the incorporation of race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity complete the full definition of family. This is done by the incorporation of everyone’s history. In order to fully understand family focus should be placed in society as a whole, instead of section.
Understanding the concept of the family is very difficult when it’s hard to define it. The family structure is a diverse concept in which everyone’s personal situations are different creating their own family structures. Every individual is different therefore have different family structures making the family difficult to have a universal …show more content…
“But the idea that the African cultures had been destroyed by slavery and racial oppression was a matter of some debate and was to meet its strongest rebuttal during the civil rights movement of the 1960’s”(Hill 2006;75 and 76). By understanding people’s racial history in society, it is easier to understand their family structures. People’s race ethnicity shapes their family structures and the way they live because it allows for every individual to part of the definition. Race and ethnicity influences peoples’ behaviors when it comes to gender roles and their place in the family.
The diversity of race and ethnicity help understand the concept of the family. Allowing race and ethnicity to be taken in consideration society would be less structured in …show more content…
Women have been the most oppressed in the history of American society. In the Philippine culture women live a difficult oppressed life compared to the men. In the reading We Don’t Sleep Around Like white Girls, by Yen Le Espiritu she explains the different limitations that men and women have in the Philippine culture. Women in this culture are oppressed in which they aren’t allowed to do as they wish. Men in this race have freedom in which women do not. Women did not have liberty in deciding what their lifestyle should be like. They did not have any permission to leave their home and go out to work. Philippine people coming to the United States have a difficulty adjusting to the American ideal perception of the family since they are sometimes unable to live a certain life they have never been exposed to. This shows how some races cannot form families since some individuals are more oppressed than others. Women in the United States are also oppressed; you have white women getting an education and career where the immigrant women do their home jobs. Feminist Rethinking From Racial-Ethnic Families by Maxine Baca, explains how there is oppression from women to women. Having this issue is a problem because this alienates certain women from ever having an ideal family lifestyle. People are exposed to different types of oppression due their racial backgrounds. Therefore, certain races such as African Americans, Philippines
Understanding the concept of the family is very difficult when it’s hard to define it. The family structure is a diverse concept in which everyone’s personal situations are different creating their own family structures. Every individual is different therefore have different family structures making the family difficult to have a universal …show more content…
“But the idea that the African cultures had been destroyed by slavery and racial oppression was a matter of some debate and was to meet its strongest rebuttal during the civil rights movement of the 1960’s”(Hill 2006;75 and 76). By understanding people’s racial history in society, it is easier to understand their family structures. People’s race ethnicity shapes their family structures and the way they live because it allows for every individual to part of the definition. Race and ethnicity influences peoples’ behaviors when it comes to gender roles and their place in the family.
The diversity of race and ethnicity help understand the concept of the family. Allowing race and ethnicity to be taken in consideration society would be less structured in …show more content…
Women have been the most oppressed in the history of American society. In the Philippine culture women live a difficult oppressed life compared to the men. In the reading We Don’t Sleep Around Like white Girls, by Yen Le Espiritu she explains the different limitations that men and women have in the Philippine culture. Women in this culture are oppressed in which they aren’t allowed to do as they wish. Men in this race have freedom in which women do not. Women did not have liberty in deciding what their lifestyle should be like. They did not have any permission to leave their home and go out to work. Philippine people coming to the United States have a difficulty adjusting to the American ideal perception of the family since they are sometimes unable to live a certain life they have never been exposed to. This shows how some races cannot form families since some individuals are more oppressed than others. Women in the United States are also oppressed; you have white women getting an education and career where the immigrant women do their home jobs. Feminist Rethinking From Racial-Ethnic Families by Maxine Baca, explains how there is oppression from women to women. Having this issue is a problem because this alienates certain women from ever having an ideal family lifestyle. People are exposed to different types of oppression due their racial backgrounds. Therefore, certain races such as African Americans, Philippines