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The Matrifocal Family - Power, Pluralism and Politics (Paperback, New)
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Written by Raymond T. Smith over a period of more than forty years,
the essays in "The Matrifocal Family" address issues of enduring
and vital significance, cultural diversity and social integration.
The concept of the "matrifocal family" developed in these essays
denotes neither female-headed households nor female domination.
Instead the essays in this collection focus attention on the
enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations
in situations of both racial and gender domination, and point to
the crucial role played by family ties in creating and maintaining
class and status hierarchies.
Several themes run throughout the essays. One, deriving from the
author's earliest work in Guyana and continuing through his most
recent research in the United States, questions the common view of
African American family life as "disorganized" and pathological.
Without minimizing the severe problems that beset the poor and
oppressed, or the social pathologies of modern urban life, Smith
argues that the remarkable strength, resilience and diversity of
African American kinship has been almost willfully ignored.
The second theme running through these essays is Smith's view that
race is neither the natural basis of social differentiation nor the
inevitable starting point for cultural distinctions and political
conflict. As the process of globalization has accelerated there has
been, throughout the world, a counter process of racial and
"ethnic" assertion resulting in what is now called "identity
politics." "The Matrifocal Family" argues that there is no
"natural" reason for societies to divide along lines of race or
"ethnicity."
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