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Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives , draws on more than 400 interviews with diverse young adults to examine how young Americans understand their lives and the challenges they face as they move into adulthood.

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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.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
About the Authors

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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

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2 Family Support in the Transition to Adulthood among Diverse Young Adults in the United States
  Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Erika Busse
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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
 iDouglas Hartmann and Teresa Toguchi Swartz

Index

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