209k views
2 votes
Anthropologist Carol Stack studied an impoverished urban African American community called the Flats in a town outside Chicago in the early 1970s. Identify the main creative and complex survival strategy that Stack identified in her ethnography?

1 Answer

6 votes

Answer:

complex survival strategy based on extended kinship networks.

Step-by-step explanation:

Carol Stack discovered during her studies a complex survival strategy based on extended kinship networks. This dynamic set of kinship networks were based on mutual reciprocity where survive very harsh periods of poverty and long-term unemployment, by helping one another out and relying on family and those close enough to become family.

User Dsims
by
9.0k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.