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Title The Extended family in black societies / editors, Demitri B. Shimkin, Edith M. Shimkin and Dennis A. Frate.

Publication Info. The Hague : Mouton, 1978.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.85 E96E    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 526 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series World anthropology
World anthropology.
Note Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents The struggle for black community development in Holmes County, Mississippi : internal efforts, external support, and the role of science / Eddie W. Logan and Dennis A. Frate -- The extended family among black Holmes countians : a personal note / Dennis A. Frate -- The black extended family : a basic rural institution and a mechanism of urban adaptation / Demitri B. Shimkin, Gloria Jean Louis, and Dennis A. Frate -- Community reactions and appraisals : the extended family as a social core / Dennis A. Frate and Eddie W. Logan -- Black families in the United States : an overview of current ideologies and research / Bert N. Adams -- Continuities and variations in black family structure / Joyce Aschenbrenner -- The 'clan' : case study of a black extended family in Chicago / Regina E. Holloman and Fannie E. Lewis -- Kinship and residential propinquity in black New Orleans : the Wesleys / Lenus Jack, Jr. -- Kinship and friendship in black Los Angeles : a study of migrants from Texas / Kiyotaka Aoyagi -- Familialism in Texas : a Texan view / M. Jourdan Atkinson -- Texas indeed is different : some historical and demographic observations / Demitri B. Shimkin -- The black extended family in the United States : some research suggestions / Vera M. Green -- Persistence, borrowing, and adaptive changes in black kinship systems : some issues and their significance / Demitri B. Shimkin and Victor Uchendu -- Ticouloute and his kinfolk : the study of a Haitian extended family / Michel Laguerre -- Delegation of parental roles in West Africa and the West Indies / Esther N. Goody -- Black institutions and potential social change in the United States / Leonard D. Borman.
Subject African American extended families -- Congresses.
African American extended families -- Mississippi -- Holmes County -- Congresses.
Holmes County (Miss.) -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Families, Black -- Congresses.
Added Author Shimkin, Demitri B. (Demitri Boris), 1916-1992.
Shimkin, Edith M.
Frate, Dennis A., 1948-
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago)
ISBN 9027975906: fl 78.00
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