Fathering from the Margins: An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood 0231542275, 9780231542272

Despite a decade of sociological research documenting black fathers’ significant level of engagement with their children

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Fathering from the Margins: An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood
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Aasha M. Abdill draws on four years of fieldwork in Bedford-Stuyvesant to dispel stereotypes of black men as "deadb

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Fatherhood is gaining ever more public and political attention, stimulated by the increasing prominence of fathers'

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