Extended Family in Black Societies /

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (526 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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