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Like family : narratives of fictive kinship / Margaret K. Nelson.

By: Series: Families in focusPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]Description: xi, 229 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813564050
  • 9780813564067
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.850973 23 N428
LOC classification:
  • HQ536 .N45 2020
Summary: "For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be "like family" among the White, middle-class"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be "like family" among the White, middle-class"--