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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1978Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (526 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027975904
  • 9783110807769
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.42
LOC classification:
  • E185.86 .E9
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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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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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