One important way in which African American families differed from European American White families was in terms of
◦ the greater importance that Whites placed on religion as a foundation of family life.
◦ the cultural and historical importance that African American families placed on extended kinship relationships over the importance of the marital or conjugal relationships as in European American families.
◦ the extent to which polygyny played in a role in African American families.
◦ the cultural and historical importance that European American families placed on extended kinship relationships over the importance of the marital or conjugal relationship as in African American families.
Young American Alligators basking
Giant African land snails
Distribution of the African great apes.
African dancing mask from Ulivira, Lake Tanganyika.
African Woman