All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
A classic anthropological account of how extended family networks sustain residents of a low-income Black urban community through mutual support and resource sharing.
About This Book
This book examines kinship, reciprocity, and survival strategies in an urban Black community.
The author documents how extended family networks provide economic and emotional support.
Research is based on fieldwork conducted in the late 1960s in a single Midwestern city.
The study highlights adaptive patterns that challenge common assumptions about poverty and family structure.
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