This February, Texas A&M will honor Black History Month by emphasizing the foundations of Black family life and history.
The theme for Black History Month 2021 is âThe Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity,â which the Association for the Study of African American Life and History sets. This theme is focused on looking at the Black family as a foundation of Black life and history.
âWhile the role of the Black family has been described by some as a microcosm of the entire race, its complexity as the âfoundationâ of African American life and history can be seen in numerous debates over how to represent its meaning and typicality from a historical perspective â as slave or free, as patriarchal or matriarchal/matrifocal, as single-headed or dual-headed household, as extended or nuclear, as fictive kin or blood lineage, as legal or common law, and as Black or interracial, etc.,â a document from the Association for the Study of African Ame