All our kin
Subtitle: strategies for survival in a Black community.
Edition: 1st ed. --
Series: Harper colophon books; Harper colophon books
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: African American families -- Case studies; Poor -- United States -- Case studies
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.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [160]-176.