What It Means to Be Daddy : : Fatherhood for Black Men Living Away from Their Children / / Jennifer Hamer.
Absent fathers, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and single-mother households are often blamed for the poor quality of life experienced by many African American children. Jennifer F. Hamer challenges both the imposition of an inappropriate value system and the resulting ineffectual social polici...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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