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Título The Myth of the Missing Black Father
Autor Roberta Coles (Editor); Charles Green (Editor)
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición [ Edition: First
Páginas 400
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Columbia University Press
Fecha de publicación 2009-12
Ilustrado Sí
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780231143530 / 0231143532
Peso 1.15 libras (0.52 kg)
Dimensiones 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 pulgadas (22.35 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
Temas
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Topical: Family
Library of Congress subjects African American families, Absentee fathers
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009019270
Dewey Decimal Code 306.874

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Roberta L. Coles is associate professor of sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she teaches courses on family, race and ethnicity, and social inequality. She is the author of Race and Family and Best Kept Secret: Black Single Custodial Fathers. Her publications have appeared in the Sociological Quarterly, The Sociological Review, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Aging Studies, Sociology of Religion, and The Western Journal of Black Studies.

Charles Green is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Hunter College (CUNY) and also teaches in the Ph.D. sociology program at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. His published works have focused on race and ethnic relations, urban politics, Caribbean migration, and issues in comparative urban development. He is the coauthor of The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation and editor of Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge. His most recent work is Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora.

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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… Leer más