Everything you need to understand or teach All Our Kin by Carol B. Stack.
It is commonly believed, both by scholars and by laymen, that the ingrained behaviors of the black urban poor are conducive to keeping them poor and a large part of the reason for their apparent lack of economic mobility. However, this study, which is based on direct, face-to-face experience with the black urban poor themselves, shows that far from being conducive to continued poverty, these practices are actually creative responses to...
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community Lesson Plans contain 102 pages of teaching material, including: