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The Best Kept Secret. Single Black Fathers.
Roberta L. Coles
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hardcover. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: VFV; WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
The Best Kept Secret studies the often-overlooked group of single, African American custodial fathers. While the media focuses on the increase of single mothers and the decline in marriage in the black community, Roberta Coles paints a nuanced picture of single black dads. Based on qualitative research, the author looks at the parenting experience of these fathers, who may have become single parents through nonmarital births, divorce, widowhood and adoption. The fathers, ranging in age from 20 to 76, discuss their motivations for taking custody of their children, what roles they enact as parents, what they hope for their children, how they socialize their children in a diverse society, how parenting daughters differs from sons, and what parenting has done for them personally. Coles then recommends policy changes to improve the situations for children and single parents-particularly often-unseen fathers. Filled with dynamic interviews and intriguing case studies, The Best Kept Secret shows that single black custodial fathers do exist and looks at the ways raising children has shaped their lives.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742564251
SKU
V9780742564251
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99-15
About Roberta L. Coles
Roberta L. Coles is associate professor of sociology at Marquette University.
Reviews for The Best Kept Secret. Single Black Fathers.
Coles...makes a major contribution to the literature on single black custodial fathers. Her study is exploratory and descriptive, offering an examination of the meaning of fatherhood held by the 20 single black custodial fathers she interviewed. Her work offers a rich picture of fatherhood embodied by the fathers she interviewed. ... An important book that gets this best-kept secret out in the open.
Library Journal
Interspersed throughout are compelling portraits of men raising their children and coping with all of the challenges women typically face in child rearing....Coles offers a new perspective on black male fatherhood that defies conventional wisdom on the subject.
Booklist
Coles should be commended for her tenacity to interpret some black male experiences with rearing children. Recommended.
CHOICE
I highly recommend that we all read [this] essential book by a leading scholar on the subject of Black American fathers.
L.A. Watts Times
Roberta Coles, by blending a case study approach and detailed personal narratives, reveals the neglected face of single African American custodial fathers committed to raising their children. Long ignored by researchers and misunderstood by agents of key social institutions, these men share powerful, intimate stories about the joys and struggles of fatherhood in a society conditioned to expect less of them.
William Marsiglio, University of Florida
Library Journal
Interspersed throughout are compelling portraits of men raising their children and coping with all of the challenges women typically face in child rearing....Coles offers a new perspective on black male fatherhood that defies conventional wisdom on the subject.
Booklist
Coles should be commended for her tenacity to interpret some black male experiences with rearing children. Recommended.
CHOICE
I highly recommend that we all read [this] essential book by a leading scholar on the subject of Black American fathers.
L.A. Watts Times
Roberta Coles, by blending a case study approach and detailed personal narratives, reveals the neglected face of single African American custodial fathers committed to raising their children. Long ignored by researchers and misunderstood by agents of key social institutions, these men share powerful, intimate stories about the joys and struggles of fatherhood in a society conditioned to expect less of them.
William Marsiglio, University of Florida