The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925 |
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slavery and kinship - mechanisms, strategies... attention to linguistic strategies in naming practices when kin networks are forcible fragmented.....even when the bio bonds aren't there, no possibility for innate proximity that we usually find in kinship systems, kinship isn't gone --- kinship is first and foremost a highly malleable social organization
Contents
Send Me Some of the Childrens Hair | 11 |
Because She Was My Cousin | 45 |
I | 101 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925 |
| Author | Herbert George Gutman |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 18, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0394471164, 9780394471167 |
| Length | 664 pages |
| Subjects | › › African American families African American families - History African Americans African Americans - History African Americans - Social conditions African Americans Families History African Americans History African Americans Social conditions Afro-American families Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Social Science / Sociology / General |
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