Racial-Ethnic Mothers

A prominent difference between the three groups of racial-ethnic mothers historically is that while African-American mothers were often encouraged to form families to increase the slave labor force, Chinese women were prohibited from starting families in America by law and also because they were often left behind in China. In contrast to African-American mothers, who experienced a somewhat egalitarian division of labor in the home, Chinese mothers often performed all domestic work because of the split household family system, and Mexican-American mothers also took on most of the domestic work.
In contrast to white women, whose domestic roles were seen as essential for maintenance of society, women of color were valued in society for their