Contributions

  • Martin, Elmer P. - Contributor

Publication

1985 - National Association of Social Workers, Silver Spring, Md, Maryland

Language

English

Word Count

27,250 words, Guess

Page Count

109 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC305.8/96073
  • LCCE185.86 .M375 1985

Description

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.

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