"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"

All our kin: strategies for survival in a Black community

Politics & Social Sciences

Stack, Carol B.

Social Sciences

Harper&Row

"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"

All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Basic Books

The long-awaited new book by the author of the bestselling All Our Kin is a poignant saga of a reverse exodus: the return of half a million black Americans to the rural South.There have been many books focusing on the black migration out of the South into Northern cities. But few people are aware that over the past 20 years the trend has been in the other direction, with African-Americans moving back south, to some of the least promising places in all of Americaplaces the Department of Agriculture calls Persistent Poverty Counties.” Carol Stack brings their stories to life in this captivating book. Interweaving a powerful human story with a larger economic and social analysis of migration, poverty, and the urban underclass, Call to Home offers a rare glimpse of African-American families pulling together and trying to make it in today's America.

Call To Home: African-Americans Reclaim The Rural South

History

Americas

All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in Black Community

Peter Smith Pub Inc

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