{"product_id":"the-myth-of-the-missing-black-father-9780231143530","title":"The Myth of the Missing Black Father","description":"\u003cp\u003eCommon 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 and intent of many black fathers to be responsible caregivers. This collection also includes interviews with daughters of absent fathers and concludes with the effects of certain policy decisions on responsible parenting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberta 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 \u003ci\u003eRace and Family and Best Kept Secret: Black Single Custodial Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e. Her publications have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eSociological Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sociological Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Contemporary Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Aging Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSociology of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Western Journal of Black Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eGlobalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent work is \u003ci\u003eManufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844162294034,"sku":"9780231143530","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6a189f81-70b2-4645-b18f-76adaeab2d17.jpg?v=1737312895","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-myth-of-the-missing-black-father-9780231143530","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}