All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community

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Basic Books, 1 aug. 2008 - 416 pagini
"This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm"
 

Cuprins

The Flats The Setting
1
The Research Scene
5
My Home Base
11
Black Urban Poor Stereotypes Versus Reality
22
An Anthropological Approach
27
What Goes Round Comes Round
32
The Obligation to Give
41
The Rhythm of Exchange
42
Gimme a Little Sugar
62
Statistical Patterns
71
Transactions in Parenthood
73
Those You Count
90
KinStructured Local Networks
93
Residence and Domestic Organization vii
101
2 2 2 2 0 ů 2 L L Y 45
169
50
170

Social Networks
43
All Our Kin
45
Motherhood Fatherhood Friendship
57
57
171
The Domestic Network of Magnolia and Calvin Waters 94
172
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Despre autor (2008)

Carol B. Stack is professor of women's studies and education at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of All Our Kin and numerous articles on poverty and social policy, she is also past president of the Society for Urban Anthropology. She was awarded the Prize for Critical Research in 1995 from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. She has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Russel Sage Fellowships. She returns often to a home in North Carolina.

Informații bibliografice

TitluAll Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community
AutorCarol B Stack
EditorBasic Books, 2008
ISBN0786722665, 9780786722662
Lungime416 pagini
  
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