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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Other Authors: Silver, April R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn : Soft Skull Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ©2008.
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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.