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Paperback / softback. New. Common stereotypes portray black fathers as being largely absent from their families. Yet while black fathers are less likely than white and Hispanic fathers to marry their child's mother, many continue to parent through cohabitation and visitation, providing caretaking, financial, and other in-kind support. This volume captures the meaning and practice of black fatherhood in its many manifestations, exploring two-parent families, cohabitation, single custodial fathering, stepfathering, noncustodial visitation, and parenting by extended family members and friends. Contributors examine ways that black men perceive and decipher their parenting responsibilities, paying careful attention to psychosocial, economic, and political factors that affect the ability to parent. Chapters compare the diversity of African American fatherhood with negative portrayals in politics, academia, and literature and, through qualitative analysis and original profiles, illustrate the struggle…
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The Myth of the Missing Black Father Paperback - 2009
by Roberta Coles (Editor); Charles Green (Editor)
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- Title The Myth of the Missing Black Father
- Author Roberta Coles (Editor); Charles Green (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2009-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231143530 / 0231143532
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.35 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects African American families, Absentee fathers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009019270
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.874
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