Prior research has examined the quinceañera’s role in Hispanic female adolescents’ identity development processes, but few have examined the quinceañera as a site of group-level continuity and change whose relevance persists in a post–Great Recession economy. This gap in the family science literature reflects a larger epistemic shortcoming stemming from the field’s use of White mainstream family processes as the reference from which to operationalize normative family values, attitudes, and behaviors. Using historical and demographic data in tandem with contemporary literature on the consumptive behaviors of Hispanic families, we conceptualize the quinceañera as a consistently symbolic, yet flexibly enacted ritual performed by diverse U.S. Hispanic families as they co-construct family identity against the backdrop of changing immigration patterns, fertility rates, and financial practices.

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通过Quinceañera仪式改变家庭身份

先前的研究已经考察了昆西埃拉在西班牙裔女性青少年身份发展过程中的作用，但是很少有人研究过昆西埃纳作为群体级连续性和变化的场所，其相关性在后大衰退后的经济中依然存在。家庭科学文献中的这种差距反映出更大的认知缺陷，这是由于该领域使用白人主流家庭过程作为参考，从而使规范性家庭价值观，态度和行为得以运作。我们结合历史和人口统计数据以及有关拉美裔家庭的消费行为的当代文献，将西番莲概念化为美国裔西班牙裔家庭在不断变化的移民背景下共同建构家庭身份时所遵循的象征性但灵活制定的仪式模式