Dedication -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION -- The Struggle for Black Community Development in Holmes County, Mississippi: Internal Efforts, External Support, and the Role of Science -- SECTION TWO: THE EXTENDED FAMILY IN HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI AND ITS OUTLIERS -- The Extended Family Among Black Holmes Countians: A Personal Note -- The Black Extended Family: A Basic Rural Institution and a Mechanism of Urban Adaptation -- Community Reactions and Appraisals: The Extended Family as a Social Core -- SECTION THREE: IS THERE A NATIONAL PATTERN IN THE UNITED STATES? -- Black Families in the United States: An Overview of Current Ideologies and Research -- Continuities and Variations in Black Family Structure -- The "Clan": Case Study of a Black Extended Family in Chicago -- Kinship and Residential Propinquity in Black New Orleans: The Wesleys -- Kinship and Friendship in Black Los Angeles: A Study of Migrants from Texas -- Familialism in Texas: A Texan View -- Texas Indeed Is Different: Some Historical and Demographic Observations -- The Black Extended Family in the United States: Some Research Suggestions -- SECTION FOUR: AFRO-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE EXTENDED FAMILY -- Persistence, Borrowing, and Adaptive Changes in Black Kinship Systems: Some Issues and Their Significance -- Ticouloute and His Kinfolk: The Study of a Haitian Extended Family -- Delegation of Parental Roles in West Africa and the West Indies -- SECTION FIVE: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY -- Black Institutions and Potential Social Change in the United States -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.