Be a father to your child : real talk from Black men on family, love, and fatherhood /
This collection of essays, interviews, and poems is a composite portrait of a generation of "hip hop heads" who represent what is good and enduring about this oft misunderstood culture. It is also a riposte to the widespread belief that Black men don't care about their families. The c...
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Brooklyn :
Soft Skull Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
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Table of Contents:
- Be men first, then fathers : realizing progressive Black masculinities / Loren S. Harris
- An interview with Davey D.
- Freestyle fatherhood / Lasana Hotep
- What is a man? / Kevin Powell
- Baba / Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele
- Work and travel / Steven G. Fullwood
- Love, lessons, learning, and leadership / Timothy David Jones
- From education to get money : the challenge of parenting in and beyond the hip-hop generation / Bakari Kitwana
- What kind of place is this? : a Black father raising his sons in white suburbia / Alford A. Young, Jr.
- A moment of clarity / Aaron Lloyd
- Jazz, hip-hop, and Dad in my subconscious / Shaun Neblett
- The "pursuit" of meaning / Bill Stephney
- An interview with Talib Kweli
- My son's imaginary friend / James Braxton Peterson II
- The Black hair matrix : how Jada Pinkett-Smith saved my daughter's self-esteem / Adisa Banjoko
- Down the aisle, Walkin' the walk / Thabiti Boone
- Poems / by Saddi Khali
- Truth and reconciliation / Kevin Williams
- Do the sons bear the sins of the father? / Dion Chavis
- G-Daddy : a father's rage, a grandfather's delight / Mo Beasley
- Who's the man? / Cheo Tyehimba
- An interview with Rhymefest
- Because of my father-- / Byron Hurt
- The old man / Jelani Cobb.