Book
All our kin
Basic Books • New York • Published In 1997 • Pages:
By: Stack, Carol B..
Abstract
This book discusses dynamics of family and community among African American in a contemporary town nicknamed 'The Flats.' It shows that African Americans in this town have developed a very distinctive family pattern and community networks characterized by dynamic patterns of co-residence, kinship-based exchange networks linking multiple domestic units, elastic household boundaries, lifelong bonds to three generation households, and social control against the formation of marriages that could endanger the network of kin, the domestic authority of women, and limitations on the role of the husband or male friend within a woman's kin network. The author found these structural features of to be highly adaptive, reflecting African Americans' resilient response to poverty, inexorable unemployment and limited access to government support.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field Date
- 1965-1970
- Coverage Date
- 1960-1970
- Coverage Place
- United States
- Notes
- Carol Stack
- First HARPER PAPERBACK published in 1975. Reissued by Basic Books, 1997
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-167) and index
- LCSH
- African American families United States Case studies/Poor United States Case studies