Also known as: Fictive kin, Chosen kinship, Ritual kinship
Last updated: April 23, 2026
The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective treats the rebuilding of kinship as one of the central social tasks of life under slavery. People who had been separated from relatives and thrown among strangers still needed ways to organize care, sex roles, childrearing, labor, and obligation. That is why kinship had to be remade, not merely remembered.
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