What is the author's tone in All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community by Carol B. Stack?

Stack is writing as a serious academic and therefore writes with the voice of a scholar. Whenever she mentions the work of another scholar, whether she agrees with it or not, she always includes a citation. Though the size of the book would not allow her to include all her research, and much of it was acquired through her immersion in the community, an experience which is not easily conveyed to a reader, she does go to great pains to include as much of her methodology and work as possible in a very helpful appendix to the book.