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Abstract: Addressing recent theoretical debates, this study examined the differences in extended family integration among Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Whites, as well as the importance of culture and structure in explaining these differences. Our findings showed Whites and Latinos/as have distinctive patterns of extended family integration: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans exhibited higher rates of coresidence and proximate living than Whites; Whites had greater involvement in financial support than Mexicans or Puerto Ricans, but Mexicans were more involved in instrumental help. Structural factors such as income, education, and nuclear family composition explained much of these ethnic differences. The study's findings suggest that policy should emphasize the unmet needs in Latino/a communities and the role of extended families.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Mapping Latina/o Sexualities Research and Scholarship -- 1. A History of Latina/o Sexualities -- 2. Making Sex Matter: Histories of Latina/o Sexualities, 1898 to 1965 -- 3. Latina/o Childhood Sexuality -- 4. Latina/o Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review -- 5. Sexual Health of Latina/o Populations in the United States -- 6. Latina/o Sex Policy -- 7. Heterosexuality Exposed: Some Feminist Sociological Reflections on Heterosexual Sex and Romance in U.S. Latina/o Communities -- 8. Representations of Latina/o Sexuality in Popular Culture -- 9. Cultural Production of Knowledge on Latina/o Sexualities -- 10. Where There's Querer: Knowledge Production and the Praxis of HIV Prevention -- 11. Religion/Spirituality, U.S. Latina/o Communities, and Sexuality Scholarship: A Thread of Current Works -- 12. Latina/o Sexualities in Motion: Latina/o Sexualities Research Agenda Project -- 13. Latinas, Sex Work, and Trafficking in the United States -- 14. Latina Lesbianas, BiMujeres, and Trans Identities: Charting Courses in the Social Sciences -- 15. Latina/o Transpopulations -- 16. Boundaries and Bisexuality: Reframing the Discourse on Latina/o Bisexualities -- 17. Revisiting Activos and Pasivos: Toward New Cartographies of Latino/Latin American Male Same-Sex Desire -- 18. Retiring Behavioral Risk, Disease, and Deficit Models: Sexual Health Frameworks for Latino Gay Men and Other Men Who Enjoy Sex with Men -- Epilogue: Rethinking the Maps Where "Latina/o" and "Sexuality" Meet -- NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this reader offers us a critical lens through which to understand these images and the social context framing Latina/os and their sexualities. Situa