The extended family in black societies [electronic resource] / editors, Demitri B. Shimkin, Edith M. Shimkin, Dennis A. Frate. - The Hague : Mouton, 1978. - xxi, 526 p. : ill., ports. - World anthropology .

Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

section 1. Introduction -- section 2. The extended family in Holmes County, Mississippi and its outliers -- section 3. Is there a national pattern in the United States? -- section 4. Afro-American perspectives on the extended family -- section 5. Implications for policy.


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African American extended families--Congresses.
African American extended families--Mississippi--Holmes County--Congresses.
Families, Black--Congresses.


Holmes County (Miss.)--Social conditions--Congresses.


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