All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community

by Carol B Stack

Overview

"This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061319822
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	08/04/1983
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.05(w) x 7.95(h) x 0.85(d)
Lexile:	1510L (what's this?)

About the Author

Carol B. Stack is professor of women's studies and education at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of All Our Kin and numerous articles on poverty and social policy, she is also past president of the Society for Urban Anthropology. She was awarded the Prize for Critical Research in 1995 from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. She has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Russel Sage Fellowships. She returns often to a home in North Carolina.