By Anne R. Roschelle
Many students and political analysts think that thriving family members and non-kin social help networks proceed to symbolize minority kinfolk lifestyles. coverage suggestions according to those underlying assumptions could lead on to the implementation of damaging social coverage. No extra Kin examines prolonged kinship networks between African American, Chicano and Puerto-Rican households within the usa, and gives an built-in theoretical framework for reading how the simultaneity of gender, race and sophistication oppression impacts minority relatives organization.
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This pathological per spective is devoid of any analysis of the complex interaction of class, ethnicity, gender, and regional history in shaping the development of Chicano family interaction. The resulting portrayal of the Chicano family has been fallacious and overly simplistic (Andrade, 1982). Another factor contributing to the distorted portrayal of the Chicano family is the unrelenting use of the concept of machismo to explain every aspect of Chicano family life. Although the notion of machismo is not unique to the pathological perspective, it has been accepted uncritically with no attempt at verifying its prevalence in Chicano culture.
These revisionist scholars focus on close bonds of affection, patterns of helping behavior, and the extended network of family and friends that characterize Chicano family Hfe (Del Castillo, 1984). In addition, this approach examines the family in the context of Aztec cultural tradition. Although it is impossible to identify one uniform Chicano family, scholars agree that it is possible to examine ideals that are characteristic of/d familia (Del Castillo, 1984; Mirande & Enriquez, 1979). Proponents of the strength resiliency perspective have argued that familism (the values, attitudes, and beliefs that are associated with the extended family) can be traced to pre-Colombian Mexico.
If scholars fail to recognize the myriad social problems facing minority families and instead argue that any aspect of minority family life, no matter how deviant, serves a useful function, they will subvert any societal attempt to ameliorate these problems (Allen, 1978). The strength resiliency perspective unintentionally develops a functionalist argument, which ultimately promotes the maintenance of the prevailing social structure. Another flaw in this perspective is the tendency among revisionist scholars to minimize social class and ethnic variations (Mirande, 1977).
