Frontmatter -- SECTION ONE: Introduction -- The Struggle for Black Community Development in Holmes County, Mississippi: Internal Efforts, External Support, and the Role of Science / LOGAN, EDDIE W. / FRATE, DENNIS A. -- SECTION TWO: The Extended Family in Holmes County, Mississippi, and Its Outliers -- The Extended Family Among Black Holmes Countians: A Personal Note / FRATE, DENNIS A. -- The Black Extended Family: A Basic Rural Institution and a Mechanism of Urban Adaptation / SHIMKIN, DEMITRI B. / LOUIE, GLORIA JEAN / FRATE, DENNIS A. -- Community Reactions and Appraisals: The Extended Family as a Social Core / FRATE, DENNIS A. / LOGAN, EDDIE W. -- SECTION THREE: Is There a National Pattern in the United States? -- Black Families in the United States: An Overview of Current Ideologies and Research / ADAMS, BERT N. -- Continuities and Variations in Black Family Structure / ASCHENBRENNER, JOYCE -- The "Clan": Case Study of a Black Extended Family in Chicago / HOLLOMAN, REGINA Ε. / LEWIS, FANNIE Ε. -- Kinship and Residential Propinquity in Black New Orleans: The Wesleys / JACK, LENUS JR. -- Kinship and Friendship in Black Los Angeles: A Study of Migrants from Texas / AOYAGI, KIYOTAKA -- Familialism in Texas: A Texan View / ATKINSON, JOURDAN M. -- Texas Indeed Is Different: Some Historical and Demographic Observations / SHIMKIN, DEMITRI B. -- The Black Extended Family in the United States: Some Research Suggestions / GREEN, VERA M. -- SECTION FOUR: Afro-American Perspectives on the Extended Family -- Persistence, Borrowing, and Adaptive Changes in Black Kinship Systems: Some Issues and Their Significance / SHIMKIN, DEMITRI B. / UCHENDU, VICTOR -- Ticouloute and His Kinfolk: The Study of a Haitian Extended Family / LAGUERRE, MICHEL -- Delegation of Parental Roles in West Africa and the West Indies / GOODY, ESTHER N. -- SECTION FIVE: Implications for Policy -- Black Institutions and Potential Social Change in the United States / BORMAN, LEONARD D. -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjectsweiterlesen