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Extended families in Africa and the African diaspora
- Title
- Extended families in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Osei-Mensah Aborampah and Niara Sudarkasa.
- Publication
- Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2011.
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- Description
- vi, 398 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 11-2011
- ISBN
- 1592218113 (cloth)
- 9781592218110 (cloth)
- 1592218121 (pbk.)
- 9781592218127 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2010054242
- OCLC
- 697974248
- Title
- Extended families in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Osei-Mensah Aborampah and Niara Sudarkasa.
- Imprint
- Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Added Author
- Aborampah, Osei-Mensah.Sudarkasa, Niara.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 11-2011