Author Question: Scholars disagree about the extended family system found among African American slaves. While some ... (Read 143 times)

ss2343 · **on:** Jun 18, 2018

Scholars disagree about the extended family system found among African American slaves. While some agree with Angela Davis that it was a functional adaptation to the disruptions of slavery, other contend that

a. the slaves really maintained nuclear families throughout the historical period of slavery.
b. the slaves maintained extended family systems similar to those in West Africa from which they had been taken.
c. we have too little data to document the existence of a true extended family system.
d. slaves were treated as individuals so they were unable to maintain any family system.

Question 2

Which of the following statements is NOT true with respect to marital violence?

a. Accurate data on spouse abuse is possible to obtain because of recent changes in the law.
b. Data on spouse abuse are often unreliable because they come from self-report surveys.
c. Information on spouse abuse is somewhat limited because most of our knowledge comes from victims.
d. All estimates of the incidence of spouse abuse probably underestimate its actual occurrence.