Book
All our kin
Basic Books • New York • Published In 1997 • Pages:
By: Stack, Carol B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnic stratification
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ethos
- Household
- Family relationships
- Gender status
- Extended families
- Special unions and marriages
- Kin relationships
- Gift giving
- Mutual aid
- Exchange transactions
- Status of children
- Child care
- Research and development
- Poverty
- Labor supply and employment
- Housing
- Income and demand
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- African Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carol Stack
- First HARPER PAPERBACK published in 1975. Reissued by Basic Books, 1997
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-167) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- African American families United States Case studies/Poor United States Case studies