All Our Kin

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

Author: Carol B. Stack
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 08/04/1983
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.02w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9780061319822
ISBN10: 0061319821
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | General
- Social Science | Black Studies (Global)

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.