Title: The helping tradition in the Black family and community
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.
Subjects: History, African American families, Social conditions, Self-help techniques, African Americans, Noirs américains, Conditions sociales, Histoire, Autodéveloppement, Familles négro-américaines