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Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives assembles chapters written by members and affiliates of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood on pressing issues facing young, coming-of-age Americans in an increasingly diverse, globalizing world. Based on over 400 interviews with young adults from different racial, class and regional backgrounds, the chapters provide an in-depth look at how young Americans understand their lives and the challenges, risks, and opportunities they experience as they move into adulthood during changing and uncertain times. Chapters focus on how these young adults understand markers of adulthood such as leaving home, launching careers, and forming relationships, as well as issues particularly salient to them including politics, diversity, identity, and acculturation. Contributors are: Pamela Aronson, Arturo Baiocchi, Erika Busse, Patrick J. Carr, Laura Fischer, Constance A. Flanagan, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Douglas Hartmann, Maria Kefalas, Vivian Louie, Charlie V. Morgan, Jeylan Mortimer, Laura Napolitano, Lisa Anh Nguyen, Wayne Osgood, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Sarah Shannon, Teresa Toguchi Swartz, and Christopher Uggen. Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Author:   Teresa Toguchi Swartz ,  Douglas Hartmann ,  Rubén G. Rumbaut
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   4
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9789004446977

ISBN 10:   9004446974
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   03 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables About the Authors 1 1 Introduction: Inside the Diverse Transitions to Adulthood  Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Rubén G. Rumbaut Part 1: Experiences and Understandings in Core Domains of the Transition to Adulthood 2 2 Family Support in the Transition to Adulthood among Diverse Young Adults in the United States  Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Erika Busse 3 3 Social Contexts and Geographic Location in the Transition to a Four-Year College: Perspectives from Iowa, Minnesota, and New York  Vivian Louie 4 Career Beginnings American-Style: Agency and Floundering in Subjective Perspective  Jeylan T. Mortimer and Laura L. Fischer 5 “Marriage is More than Being Together”: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults  Maria J. Kefalas, Frank F. Furstenberg, Patrick J. Carr and Laura Napolitano 6 Moving Ahead, Drifting, and Scaling Back: Gender and Parenthood in Career Development  Pamela Aronson and Jeylan T. Mortimer Part 2: Culture, Politics, and Community 7 From Daddy’s Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood  Sarah Shannon, Christopher Uggen and D. Wayne Osgood 8 Connecting with the Body Politic: Civic Engagement in Young Adulthood  Constance A. Flanagan, Patrick J. Carr and Maria Kefalas 9 Collective Identification among Young Adult Americans: Ethnicity, Race, and the Incorporation Experience  Arturo Baiocchi and Douglas Hartmann 10 Crossing Lines and Imagining the Future: Transitions to Adulthood and Mixed Couples in California and New York  Charlie V. Morgan, Rubén G. Rumbaut and Lisa Wang Part 3: Conclusion 11 The Transition to Adulthood in Qualitative, Comparative Perspective: Insights and Implications from the American Case  i>Douglas Hartmann and Teresa Toguchi Swartz Index

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Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, San Diego is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on intergenerational relations, families, race and ethnicity, Asian Americans, youth and young adulthood. Douglas Hartmann, Ph.D. (1997), University of California, San Diego, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and studies race, ethnicity, culture, sport, and religion. Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D. (1978), Brandeis University, is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous books and articles on migration, ethnic identities, and transitions to adulthood, including Immigrant America: A Portrait (with Alejandro Portes, University of California Press, 2014).

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