The helping tradition in the Black family and community / Joanne M. Martin, Elmer P. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Joanne Mitchell.

Contributor:

Martin, Elmer P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American families.

Self-help techniques--History.

Self-help techniques.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 109 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Silver Spring, Md. : National Association of Social Workers, ©1985.

Summary:

This book describes and documents the existence of the black helping tradition, and offers a theory regarding its origin, development, and decline. The book is based on research operating from the fundamental assumption that a pattern of black self-help activities developed from the black extended family, particularly the extended family's major elements of mutual aid, social-class cooperation, male-female equality, and prosocial behavior in children; and that the pattern of black self-help spread from the black extended family to institutions in the wider black community through fictive kinship and racial and religious consciousness.

Contents:

The helping tradition in traditional Africa and in slavery

The helping tradition among free blacks

The helping tradition during Reconstruction

The helping tradition in rural and urban America

The black helping tradition and social work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-101).

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Martin, Joanne Mitchell. Helping tradition in the Black family and community.

ISBN:

0871011298

9780871011299

OCLC:

12050328