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Extended families in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Osei-Mensah Aborampah and Niara Sudarkasa.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Africa.
- Families.
- African American families.
- History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- African diaspora.
- African American families--History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Africa
- The African family and the challenge of the twenty-first century / Mario J. Azevedo
- Reflections on motherhood in nuclear and extended families in Africa and in the United States / Niara Sudarkasa
- A time of transition : contemporary extended family networks in Ghana / Osei-Mensah Aborampah
- Families in Cameroun / Zacharia N. Nchinda
- Procreation and marriage heritage and social change among the Abagusii of Kenya / Alfred T. Kisubi
- Health and the survival of the extended family in Africa / Mario J. Azevedo
- Extended family and kinship network systems for caring for children / Florence Kyomugisha and John B. K. Rutayuga
- North Africa
- The African American family : challenges and opportunities / Gwendolyn S. Prater
- Autoethnographic analysis of African American extended family communication experiences : creating harmony, unity, and understanding / Rhunette C. Diggs
- Women, patrilateral kinship, and the family compound among the rural Gullah / Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson
- "My aunt talks about black people all the time" : the significance of extended family networks in the racial socialization of African American adolescents / Erin N. Winkler
- The Caribbean
- Insights to the Caribbean family : legacy, tradition and culture / Michele Sogren
- Extended family rhoteric : reviewing childhood and family in Barbados and the Caribbean / Christine Barrow
- The impact of family structure on child development in Jamaica / Stacey N. Brodie-Walker and Kai A. D. Morgan
- Conclusion
- Extended families in Africa and the African diaspora : commonalities, challenges, and prospects / Osei-Mensah Aborampah.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1592218113
- 9781592218110
- 1592218121
- 9781592218127
- OCLC:
- 697974248
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