What it means to be daddy : fatherhood for Black men living away from their children /
Absent fathers and households headed by single mothers are frequently blamed for the poor quality of life of African-American children. This book challenges these assumptions, arguing that they are largely an unfair reflection of non-working class white American values. Hamer places the behaviors of...
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| Język: | angielski |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2001.
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| Dostęp online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/hame11554 |
Spis treści:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fathers' Lives in Context
- PART 1. The World in Which Black Fathers Live
- 1. "There's No Such Thing as a Good Black Father": Standards of Fatherhood
- 2. Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction: Creating a Context for Black Live-Away Fatherhood
- 3. "Times Are Just Going to Get Worse . . .": Fathers Chasing the American Dream
- PART 2. Expectations of Others
- 4. "Just Be There for the Baby": What Fathers Say Others Expect
- PART 3. Being Fathers
- 6. What Fathers Say They Do as Daddies
- 7. Live-Away, but Absent?
- 8. "Ain't Nothing Like Trying to be a Father and Trying to be a Man": Barriers to Being Daddy
- Conclusion: "Got to Make Fatherhood Work for Us"--The Meaning of Fatherhood for Black Men Who Do Not Live with Their Children
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index