{"product_id":"the-black-extended-family-elmer-p-martin-9780226507972","title":"The Black Extended Family","description":"Misunderstood and stereotyped, the black family in America has been viewed by some as pathologically weak while others have acclaimed its resilience and strength. Those who have drawn these conflicting conclusions have gnerally focused on the nuclear family-husband, wife, and dependent children. But as Elmer and Joanne Martin point out in this revealing book, a unit of this kind often is not the center of black family life. What appear to be fatherless, broken homes in our cities may really be vital parts of strong and flexible extended families based hundreds of miles away-usually in a rural area. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through their eight-year study of some thirty extended families, the Martins find that economic pressures, including federal tax and welfare laws, have begun to make the extended family's flexibility into a liability that threatens its future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elmer P. Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226507971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226507972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/1980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.54w x 0.38d","brand":"Elmer P. Martin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056655757567,"sku":"9780226507972","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dde0e136-f613-427d-a6b5-5e653c9509e8.jpg?v=1685042531","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-black-extended-family-elmer-p-martin-9780226507972","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}