Introduction: General Description of Community -- A Feeling of Entrapment -- Judgment Day and the Aftermath -- You Gotta Deal with It -- Going to the Land of Cotton -- Dealing with It -- Family Number One -- Family Number Two -- Family Number Three -- Family Number Four -- The Black Family Unit -- Good-bye Vera Ridge -- A Survey of the Literature on the Black Family -- Attributes of Mama -- Attributes of Daddy -- Attributes of Sister -- Attributes of Brother -- Attributes of a Person Who Is the Same as a Mama -- The Social and Physical Person.