The helping tradition in the Black family and community

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 f...

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Main Author: Martin, Joanne Mitchell.
Contributors: Martin, Elmer P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Silver Spring, Md. : National Association of Social Workers, ©1985.
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245 1 4 |a The helping tradition in the Black family and community  |c Joanne M. Martin, Elmer P. Martin 
260 |a Silver Spring, Md. :  |b National Association of Social Workers,  |c ©1985. 
300 |a vii, 109 pages ;  |c 23 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-101). 
530 |a Also issued online. 
505 0 |a (1) "The Helping Tradition in Traditional Africa and in Slavery"; (2) "The Helping Tradition among Free Blacks"; (3) "The Helping Tradition during Reconstruction"; (4) "The Helping Tradition in Rural and Urban America"; (5) "The Black Helping Tradition and Social Work"; and (6) "Summary." Also included is a 97-item bibliography. 
520 |a 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. 
590 |a The Balch Institute Library and Archives. 
650 0 |a African American families. 
650 0 |a Self-help techniques  |x History. 
650 0 |a African Americans  |x Social conditions. 
700 1 |a Martin, Elmer P. 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Martin, Joanne Mitchell.  |t Helping tradition in the Black family and community.  |d Silver Spring, Md. : National Association of Social Workers, ©1985  |w (OCoLC)579070072 
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