Summary Of The Color Of Family Ties

In the article, “The Color of Family Ties,” by Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian they discuss the relationship between different ethnic group and their extended family. Gerstel and Sarkisian compared social class with ethnic groups. Ethnic groups are closer to their extended families than Whites. They believe that social class is more important than ethnicity between families. Social class is more important than ethnicity in understanding differences among families.

Social class is more important in determining the differences between families relationships with their extended family. Social class gives one more information about the person’s background. Ethnicity just describes who one is on the outside. Social class describes how one is doing financially and gives one more information about the person. The article states, “Minority individuals are more likely to live in extended family homes than Whites and in many ways more likely to help out their aging parents, grandparents, adult children, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, and other kin”(45). This shows that the minorities are very close to their relatives, especially if the relatives do not mind them to sleep over by weeks. Blacks and Latinos have a closer relationship to their extended family because they need extra support financially and emotionally.
Blacks and Latinos have a closer relationship because they rely on their extended family to help them. The article states, “Because Blacks and Latinos/as typically have less income and education than Whites, they come to rely more on their relatives for daily needs such as child care, household tasks, or rides” ( Minority families are too busy working that they need their family members to help them out with their kid. Blacks and Latinos need their family members to help them emotionally because they are all going through the same