Extended Family in Black Societies / / ed. by Dennis A. Frate, Edith M. Shimkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ADAMS, BERT N.,; AOYAGI, KIYOTAKA,; ASCHENBRENNER, JOYCE,; ATKINSON, JOURDAN M.,; BORMAN, LEONARD D.,; FRATE, DENNIS A.,; GOODY, ESTHER N.,; GREEN, VERA M.,; HOLLOMAN, REGINA Ε.,; JACK, LENUS JR.,; LAGUERRE, MICHEL,; LEWIS, FANNIE Ε.,; LOGAN, EDDIE W.,; LOUIE, GLORIA JEAN,; SHIMKIN, DEMITRI B.,; UCHENDU, VICTOR,
• HerausgeberIn: Frate, Dennis A.,; Shimkin, Edith M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 p.)
• Other title: I-XXII --; SECTION ONE: Introduction --; The Struggle for Black Community Development in Holmes County, Mississippi: Internal Efforts, External Support, and the Role of Science --; SECTION TWO: The Extended Family in Holmes County, Mississippi, and Its Outliers --; The Extended Family Among Black Holmes Countians: A Personal Note --; The Black Extended Family: A Basic Rural Institution and a Mechanism of Urban Adaptation --; Community Reactions and Appraisals: The Extended Family as a Social Core --; SECTION THREE: Is There a National Pattern in the United States? --; Black Families in the United States: An Overview of Current Ideologies and Research --; Continuities and Variations in Black Family Structure --; The "Clan": Case Study of a Black Extended Family in Chicago --; Kinship and Residential Propinquity in Black New Orleans: The Wesleys --; Kinship and Friendship in Black Los Angeles: A Study of Migrants from Texas --; Familialism in Texas: A Texan View --; Texas Indeed Is Different: Some Historical and Demographic Observations --; The Black Extended Family in the United States: Some Research Suggestions --; SECTION FOUR: Afro-American Perspectives on the Extended Family --; Persistence, Borrowing, and Adaptive Changes in Black Kinship Systems: Some Issues and Their Significance --; Ticouloute and His Kinfolk: The Study of a Haitian Extended Family --; Delegation of Parental Roles in West Africa and the West Indies --; SECTION FIVE: Implications for Policy --; Black Institutions and Potential Social Change in the United States --; Biographical Notes --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110807769; 9783110637922
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110807769
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Dennis A. Frate, Edith M. Shimkin.