All our kin

Description:

"All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the community used by anthropologists -- through authority figures and community leaders -- she approached the families herself by way of an acquaintance from school, becoming one of the first sociologists to explore the black kinship network from the inside. The result was a landmark study that debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. On the contrary, her study showed that families in The Flats adapted to their poverty conditions by forming large, resilient, lifelong support networks based on friendship and family that were very powerful, highly structured and surprisingly complex."--Product description from Amazon.

subjects: Case studies,  Poor,  African American families,  United States,  Afro-American families,  Getto's,  African Americans,  Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer,  Armoede,  Stedelijke gebieden,  Poor blacks,  Family Characteristics,  Familie,  Poverty,  Armut,  Schwarze,  Negers,  Poor African Americans,  71.68 socially handicapped,  Poor, united states,  African Continental Ancestry Group,  Family,  Social Conditions,  Black People,  African american families--case studies,  Poor--case studies,  Poor--united states--case studies,  Poor african americans--case studies,  Poor blacks--united states--case studies,  E185.86 .s697,  E 185.86 s775a 1974,  301.45/19/6073,  E185.86 .s697 1997x,  Poor Black people

Places: United States