The Black Extended Family
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226507971
ISBN-13
9780226507972
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 15th, 1980
Print length
140 Pages
Weight
188 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.20 x 0.60 cms
Product Classification:
Black & Asian studiesSociology: family & relationshipsAnthropologyFamily & relationships
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Misunderstood and stereotyped, the black family in America has been viewed by some as pathologically weak while others have acclaimed its resilience and strength. Those who have drawn these conflicting conclusions have gnerally focused on the nuclear family—husband, wife, and dependent children. But as Elmer and Joanne Martin point out in this revealing book, a unit of this kind often is not the center of black family life. What appear to be fatherless, broken homes in our cities may really be vital parts of strong and flexible extended families based hundreds of miles away—usually in a rural area. Through their eight-year study of some thirty extended families, the Martins find that economic pressures, including federal tax and welfare laws, have begun to make the extended family's flexibility into a liability that threatens its future.
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