The helping tradition in the Black family and community
By: Joanne M. Martin, Elmer P. Martin.
Contributors: Martin, Elmer P.
Publisher: National Association of Social Workers
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Silver Spring, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: African American families; Self-help techniques -- History; African Americans -- Social conditions
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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 97-101.