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fictive kin

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fictive kin
[fik′tiv]
people who are regarded as being part of a family even though they are not related by either blood or marriage bonds. Fictive kinship may bind people together in ties of affection, concern, obligation, and responsibility.


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When the town of Okfuskee established diplomatic ties with Charleston, the two communities became fictive kin who "were of the Same Fire" (quoted on p.
Stevenson (1995) described how the civil rights movement and the larger sociopolitical sensitivities led to a revisionist perspective that celebrates the female-headed household, extended family, and fictive kin traditions as cultural adaptations indicating the strength of the African American family (see particularly Billingsley, 1992; Gutman, 1976; Hill, 1971; Stack, 1974).
The "home" and "household," the boundaries of "public" and "private," the use of terms like "domestic worker," "employer," "helper," and "servant," as well as instrumental use of fictive kin relations are deconstructed as problematic concepts and practices that contribute to the reproduction of power and broader political and economic structures.
 
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