All Our Kin
Strategies For Survival In A Black Community
$52.01
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 August 1983
Summary
All Our Kin is 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 insid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780061319822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0061319821 |
| Author: | Carol Stack |
| Publisher: | Basic Books (AZ) |
| Imprint: | Westview Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 1983 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 128mm x 205mm |
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About The Author
Carol Stack
Carol Stack is the former Director of Admissions at Macalester College and Augsburg College. For the past 15 years, Stack has worked as a principal at Hardwick-Day, an enrollment consulting firm that works with the admissions and financial aid offices of private colleges and universities. Through Hardwick-Day, she has consulted on financial aid policy at dozens of colleges, including Whittier, Grinnell, Mills, Randolph-Macon, and Xavier University.
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