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All Our Kin
Carol B. Stack
其他書名
Strategies For Survival In A Black Community
出版
Basic Books
, 1997
主題
History / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
Social Science / Privacy & Surveillance
ISBN
0061319821
9780061319822
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YuF1AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This book chronicles 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. This text is also an indictment of a social system that reinforces welfare dependency and chronic unemployment.