TY - BOOK AU - ADAMS,BERT N. AU - AOYAGI,KIYOTAKA AU - ASCHENBRENNER,JOYCE AU - ATKINSON,JOURDAN M. AU - BORMAN,LEONARD D. AU - FRATE,DENNIS A. AU - Frate,Dennis A. AU - GOODY,ESTHER N. AU - GREEN,VERA M. AU - HOLLOMAN,REGINA Ε. AU - JACK,LENUS JR AU - LAGUERRE,MICHEL AU - LEWIS,FANNIE Ε. AU - LOGAN,EDDIE W. AU - LOUIE,GLORIA JEAN AU - SHIMKIN,DEMITRI B. AU - Shimkin,Edith M. AU - UCHENDU,VICTOR TI - Extended Family in Black Societies T2 - World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series SN - 9789027975904 AV - E185.86 .E9 U1 - 301.42 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - African American extended families KW - Congresses KW - Mississippi KW - Holmes County KW - Families, Black KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110807769 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110807769 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110807769/original ER -