Research Paper on:
Carol Stack's All Our Kin

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the poor who are of African American heritage. There is a preconceived notion that the poor African American families are uneducated, violent, and live in a world filled with incredible  despair, to mention but a few of the stereotypes involved with the perception of the poor African American families. In Carol Stacks "All Our Kin" Stack delved into the society  of the poor African American in one area of the United States. Her study presents us with new perspectives and a new understanding of the condition of the poor African  American by utilizing methods of research that differ from the norm. In the following paper we examine some of the elements of Stacks book. Question and Research Stack  clearly appears to be an individual who wishes to look at the reality of the African American community in incredibly impoverished states. She enters into her research, not utilizing information  already obtained by researchers and social workers, but with a very objective stance that is truly a credit to the study of anthropology. She does not enter their environment with  preconceived notions necessarily, but enters their environment to simply observe and record what she sees. In doing this she obviously wishes people to see the realities of the poor African  American community. She wishes, perhaps, to dispel some of the ignorant myths and present the reader with a very specific look at people who have adapted to their environment and  created a unique type of society. In many ways we could also say that Stack is not arguing anything but that these people are unique, in terms of their contrast  with the middle class white society, and that they should not be ignored, nor should they be addressed as though they were, or as though they wanted to be,