Extended families in Africa and the African diaspora, edited by Osei-Mensah Aborampah and Niara Sudarkasa

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Extended families in Africa and the African diaspora, edited by Osei-Mensah Aborampah and Niara Sudarkasa

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edited by Osei-Mensah Aborampah and Niara Sudarkasa

Instantiates

• Extended families in Africa and the African diaspora

Publication

• Trenton, N.J., Africa World Press, 2011

Copyright

• ©2011

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

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

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697974248

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23 cm

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vi, 398 pages

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9781592218110

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2010054242

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations

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.b20017510

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(OCoLC)697974248