Afro-American Adaptive Strategies

The Visiting Habits of Kith and Kin Among Black Norfolkians During the First Great Migration

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6079481
AutoresElizabeth Lewis (0000-0002-0963-2720, University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia), Earl Lewis (0000-0001-5035-3339, Earl Lewis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. He is currently completing a study of black life at work and at home in Norfolk Virginia between 1910 and 1945.)
Año1987
Volumen12
Número4
Páginas407-420
Fecha de publicación1987-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319908701200404
OpenAlexW4253441465
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas35

This article contends that contrary to what was thought at the time, the migration of large numbers of Afro-Americans to urban areas during the First Great Migration (1900- 192 0) failed in many instances to cause the severing of affective bonds of kinship and friendship. Instead, blacks devised a number of adaptive strategies that enabled them to maintain contact with those deemed important. The present findings also reveal the complex nature of the migratory process and the central role played by women in maintaining family and friendship ties despite geographic separation

Fictive kinship · Friendship · Genealogy · Geography · Kinship · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology