Carol Stack's All Our Kin is the best analysis I have seen of family and kinship organization in a ghetto black community in the U.S. It shows how inadequate most writings on the subject have been, even by social scientists, and demonstrates the importance of the anthropological approach which emphasizes living with people, learning their way of seeing things, and learning how to operate acceptably in accordance with their standards for dealing with one another. Her book should be widely read by the general public and is ideally suited for use in introductory anthropology and sociology courses.

All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community

Biographies & Memoirs

Carol Stack

Community & Culture

Harper

The long-awaited new book by the author of the bestselling All Our Kin is a poignant saga of a reverse exodus: the return of half a million black Americans to the rural South.There have been many books focusing on the black migration out of the South into Northern cities. But few people are aware that over the past 20 years the trend has been in the other direction, with African-Americans moving back south, to some of the least promising places in all of Americaplaces the Department of Agriculture calls Persistent Poverty Counties.” Carol Stack brings their stories to life in this captivating book. Interweaving a powerful human story with a larger economic and social analysis of migration, poverty, and the urban underclass, Call to Home offers a rare glimpse of African-American families pulling together and trying to make it in today's America.

Call To Home: African Americans Reclaim The Rural South

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Basic Books

At the heart of every successful school you will find a principal and a faculty with a passion for proof! The importance of understanding and using data cannot be over-emphasized in this age of No Child Left Behind accountability. This resource, the fourth in NMSA's Middle Level Leadership Series, helps the reader understand the process for analyzing and collecting data and communicating the results to effectively set and meet school improvement goals.

A Passion for Proof: Using Data to Accelerate Student Achievement

National Middle School Association

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