All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community

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Basic Books, Aug 1, 2008 - Social Science - 416 pages
"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"
 

Contents

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
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Social Networks
43
All Our Kin
45
Motherhood Fatherhood Friendship
57

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About the author (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.

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