Keeping it in the family: Cultural socialization among Haitian American families

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110286
Author(s):  
Vadricka Y. Etienne
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Cultural Socialization ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Black Immigrant ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parental Motivation ◽  
Haitian American ◽  
American Families

The broad areas of ethnic and racial socialization have been studied as essential aspects of immigrant and African American families. Yet, there has been less understanding of how these processes intersect, specifically within second-generation Black immigrant families. This article draws on 41 interviews and 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork to explore how ethnically-identified Haitian American parents transmit ethnicity and prepare their children to navigate systems of racial oppression. Findings demonstrate how these processes operate concurrently within second-generation Black immigrant families amidst parental motivation for transmitting ethnicity across generations and the realities of raising Black children in a majority-minority city.

“You gotta know how to tell a story”: Telling, tales, and tellers in American and Israeli narrative events at dinner

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoshana Blum-Kulka
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Ethnography Of Communication ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Family Constellation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Narrative Event ◽  
American Families

ABSTRACTThis study explores the degree of cultural diversity in the dinner-table conversation narrative events of eight middle-class Jewish-American and eight Israeli families, matched on family constellation. Conceptualized in terms of a threefold framework of telling, tales, and tellers, the analysis reveals both shared and unshared narrative event properties. Narrative events unfold in both groups in similar patterns with respect to multiple participation in the telling, the prevalence of personal experience tales, and the respect for children's story-telling rights. Yet cultural styles come to the fore in regard to each realm as well as their interrelations. American families locate tales outside the home but close in time, ritualizing recounts of “today”; Israeli families favor tales more distant in time but closer to home. While most narratives foreground individual selves, Israeli families are more likely to recount shared events that center around the family “us” as protagonist. In modes of telling, American families claim access to story ownership through familiarity with the tale, celebrating monologic performances; but in Israeli families, ownership is achievable through polyphonic participation in the telling. (Ethnography of communication, language and culture, conversation analysis, folklore, narrative).

Transnationalism and Identification among Chinese Immigrant Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Transnational Studies ◽  
Chinese Youth

AbstractThis paper examines transnationalism and identity construction among Chinese immigrant youth in Canada, an often-ignored population and inadequately addressed research area in transnational studies. I argue that the transnational practices within immigrant families have nurtured transnational orientation and identification among Chinese youth. I also interrogate simply using the frequency of homeland trips to evaluate the degree of second-generation transnationalism, by highlighting the different lens that Chinese youth engage in framing their perception of homeland.

Family business successors' motivation and innovation capabilities: the case of Kosovo

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asdren Toska ◽  
Veland Ramadani ◽  
Léo-Paul Dana ◽  
Gadaf Rexhepi ◽  
Jusuf Zeqiri
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
Emerging Country

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the second-generation successors’ motives to join family businesses and their ability to generate innovation within them.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative methodology is used in this study. Data were collected through structured interview with the second-generation representatives, where the data obtained helped us to come to the results and answer the research questions of the study. A total of 15 interviews were conducted.FindingsThe findings of this study show that the second generation is motivated to continue the family business, cases show that successors since childhood have been oriented towards building an entrepreneurial mindset and also after entering the family business have generated innovation.Originality/valueThe study will bring theoretical implications to the family business literature, providing scientific evidence for the second generation of family businesses, from an emerging country such as Kosovo. As Kosovo is an emerging country, the study will contribute to the literature, suggesting other studies by emerging countries in this way to see the similarities and differences.

Doug and Esther

2018 ◽  
pp. 86-115
Author(s):  
Sumie Okazaki ◽  
Nancy Abelmann
Keyword(s):  
Korean American ◽  
Ethnic Enclave ◽  
Graduate Study ◽  
Video Rental ◽  
The Family ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
American Families ◽  
Korean American Families

This chapter features the Chung family, who, like the Koh family, were keenly aware of racism. Both parents prided themselves on working outside of the ethnic sector—the mother as a highly skilled surgical nurse and the father as an owner of a video rental store. The family’s higher income compelled the parents to move their family from an affluent suburb populated by many other Korean American families to another affluent suburb that was overwhelmingly White—a strategy to exit the ethnic enclave in order to assimilate themselves and their children into multicultural (but mostly White) America to ensure successful transitions to professional occupations populated by successful (White) others. The chapter follows the family through the eyes of the younger son, who realized the illusive nature of the parents’ assimilation strategy and eventually pursued graduate study in a humanities discipline.

Family Context

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-35
Author(s):  
Sumie Okazaki ◽  
Nancy Abelmann
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Family Context ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Korean Families ◽  
The University ◽  
American Families ◽  
Korean American Families

This chapter sets the context for our study, including highlights from a study conducted on the campus of the University of Illinois that served as the impetus for the study of Korean American teens and parents in Chicagoland. The chapter presents the findings—as well as new questions sparked by the findings—of that campus study in light of the prevailing narrative about Korean American (and Asian American) families from previous scholarly works about the nature of intergenerational relationships in immigrant families. The Chicagoland Korean American families featured in our study are also placed in the context of the local, national, and transnational conversations that were ongoing among, and about, Korean American and Korean families and teens at the time of the study.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Libra R. Hilde
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
White Men ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Black Fathers ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Slave Quarters ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
American Families

The introduction presents an overview of the literature on the family and masculinity within slavery, arguing that in order to appreciate the adaptability and multiplicity of enslaved families, scholars should focus on how kin units functioned rather than on the form of households. To fully understand fatherhood within slavery, it is critical to recognize multilocal kin networks and to assess the contributions of non-resident, but engaged fathers. This book builds on recent scholarship that posits multiple masculinities in enslaved communities and explores the masculine hierarchy of slavery. In the Old South, masculinity took on a public and private dichotomy with public expressions of manhood available only to white men. Enslaved men could at times exhibit masculinity privately and within the bounds of the plantation and slave quarters. One consistent ideal of manhood in African American communities was that of caretaker. The introduction refutes misperceptions of African American families and missing Black fathers, arguing that because enslaved and postwar freedmen lacked access to recognized patriarchal power, their hidden caretaking behavior has long been obscured.

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