Carol Stack

Carol B. Stack (born 1940)[1] is an American anthropologist who is Professor Emerita of Education in the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley.[2][3]

She taught at Boston University and Duke University before becoming Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at Berkeley.[4]

Her 1974 book All Our Kin has been described as "a classic of urban sociology",[5] "one of the earliest and most popular accounts of how [black kinship] all works"[6] and "influential".[7]

Selected publications
  • All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community (1974, Harper and Row: ISBN 9780061319822; latest reissue 2003, Basic Books: ISBN 9780061319822)
  • Call To Home: African-Americans Reclaim The Rural South (1996, Basic Books: ISBN 9780465008087; latest reissue 2003: ISBN 9780465008087)
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References
  1. "Carol B. Stack". Linked Data Explorer. Worldcat. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. "Berkeley Research Faculty Profile of Carol B. Stack". Archived from the original on 2017-04-27. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
  3. "Carol B. Slack: Professor Emerita". UC Berkeley. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  4. Korab, Holly (Fall 1999). "Carol Stack: Challenging Stereotypes". Alumni and Friends. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  5. Dickerson, Debra J. (March–April 2004). "Locked Out by the System". Mother Jones. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  6. Desmond-Harris, Jenée (July 2014). "Why do Black people have so many cousins?". Pittsburgh Courier. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  7. Sanneh, Kelefeh (11–18 July 2016). "Is Gentrification Really a Problem". The New Yorker. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
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