All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community

基本信息出版社:Basic Books (1997年1月1日)平装:175页正文语种:英语ISBN:0061319821条形码:9780061319822商品尺寸:20.5 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm商品重量:200 g品牌:Basic BooksASIN:0061319821商品描述内容简介All Our Kinis 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.Universally considered the best analysis of family and kinship in a ghetto black community ever published,All Our Kinis also an indictment of a social system that reinforces welfare dependency and chronic unemployment. As today's political debate over welfare reform heats up, its message has become more important than ever.目录* The Flats * Black Urban Poor Stereotypes Versus Reality * Swapping: "What Goes Round Comes Round" * Personal Kindreds: "All Our Kin" * Child-Keeping: "Gimme a Little Sugar" * Domestic Networks: "Those You Count On" * Women and Men: "I'm Not in Love with No Man Really" * Conclusion with John R. Lombardi