In the essay, “the Color of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender, and Extended Family involvement”, written by Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, address different races and/or classes on how they interact with their families. The authors suggest that different races/classes have a different living and life styles. Gerstel and Sarkisian’s article plays on the stereotypes of different races and classes, going somewhat in depth on why they are labeled the way they are. The article goes on to show how Blacks and Latinos/as are the minority and how Whites are more privileged, and that the races are different in being family ordinated. “42 percent of Blacks and 37 percent of Latinos/as but only 20 percent of Whites live with relatives”, showing
