Book
The eighth generation: cultures and personalities of New Orleans Negroes
Harper & Brothers • New York • Published In 1960 • Pages:
By: Rohrer, John H. (John Harrison), Edmonson, Munro S., Tulane University, Urban Life Institute.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a restudy, conducted nearly 20 years later, of Children of Bondage (Davis and Dollard 1940 [1958 printing]). The authors located 90 of the 277 individuals interviewed by Davis and Dollard, interviewed 47, and more intensively studied 20 of them. Their purpose was to find out what had happened to the people and to see if they were using the same childrearing practices that had been used on them. The authors divided the sample into five groups, four comprising subcultural groups--the matriarchy, the gang, the family, the middle class--and a fifth residual group of marginal individuals. Life histories of individuals representing these groups are presented.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Ethnic stratification
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Life history materials
- Cliques
- Personality development
- Family relationships
- Nuclear family
- Status of children
- Transmission of cultural norms
- Child care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- African Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Psychologist
- Ethnographer
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1956
- NotesAdditional notes
- Editors: John H. Rohrer [and] Munro S. Edmonson. Co-authors: Harold Lief, Daniel Thompson [and] William Thompson
- 'This volume reports a research project carried out during the years 1953-1956 at the Urban Life Research Institute of Tulane University ... The responsibility for its direction rested with Dr. John Rohrer.'
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59013990
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans--Case studies
- African Americans--Psychology--Case studies
- African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Case studies