An edition of The helping tradition in the Black family and community (1985)
The helping tradition in the Black family and community
By Joanne Mitchell Martin
Publish Date
1985
Publisher
National Association of Social Workers
Language
eng
Pages
109
Description:
This book describes and documents the existence of the black helping tradition, and offers a theory regarding its origin, development, and decline. The book is based on research operating from the fundamental assumption that a pattern of black self-help activities developed from the black extended family, particularly the extended family's major elements of mutual aid, social-class cooperation, male-female equality, and prosocial behavior in children; and that the pattern of black self-help spread from the black extended family to institutions in the wider black community through fictive kinship and racial and religious consciousness.