Laurel Schwede is a research social scientist in the Statistical Research Division at the U.S. Census Bureau. Rae Lesser Blumberg is the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. Anna Y. Chan is a research social scientist in the Statistical Research Division at the U.S. Census Bureau.

This lively interdisciplinary book on 'complex households' in six U.S. ethnic groups uniquely combines rich ethnographic description conveying the 'sights and smells' of fieldwork with theory-linked overviews and Census 2000 data. It explores interactions of household structure, ethnicity and gender, also illuminating factors affecting formation and dissolution of complex households, which are increasingly important as family and ethnic diversity - and immigration - grow. It's valuable for student and professional sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, research methodologists, policymakers and interested public.

Chapter 1 The Way We Live: Complex Ethnic Households in America Chapter 2 The First Arrivals: Navajo and Inupiaq Eskimos Chapter 3 I Live Here and I Stay There: Navajo Perceptions of Households on the Reservation Chapter 4 Household Adaptive Strategies among the Inupiat Chapter 5 The Recent Arrivals: Latinos and Koreans Chapter 6 Household Structure and Its Social and Economic Functions among Korean American Immigrants in Queens, New York: An Ethnographic Study Chapter 7 Making Ends Meet: The Complex Household as a Temporary Survival Strategy among New Latino Immigrants to Virginia Chapter 8 The African Americans and Whites Chapter 9 African American Households in Transition: Structure, Culture, and Self-definition Chapter 10 Not the Typical Household: Whites in Rural New York Chapter 11 Gender, Economy, and Kinship in Complex Households among Six U.S. Ethnic Groups:Who Benefits? Whose Kin? Who Cares? Chapter 12 Who Lives Here? Complex Ethnic Households in America