Stereotype awareness and Black fathers’ paternal engagement: At the nexus of racial and fathering identities.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shauna M. Cooper ◽  
Naila A. Smith ◽  
Marketa Burnett ◽  
Margarett McBride ◽  
Andrew Supple
Keyword(s):  
Black Fathers ◽  
Paternal Engagement

Paternal and Maternal Cognitive Engagement and Preschoolers’ Literacy Skills Across Six Ethnic Groups in Suriname

2021 ◽  
pp. 009579842110076
Author(s):  
Elif Dede Yildirim ◽  
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
Keyword(s):  
Early Literacy ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Cognitive Engagement ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Sociodemographic Predictors ◽  
Multiple Indicator ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
Cultural Ecological ◽  
Paternal Engagement

Using propositions in cultural-ecological and maternal and paternal engagement models, this study utilized the 2018 UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys to examine which sociodemographic factors were associated with fathers’ and mothers’ cognitive engagement and the associations between parental and maternal cognitive engagement and preschoolers’ literacy skills in Amerindian, Maroon, Creole, Javanese, Hindustani, and Mixed-ethnic families in Suriname ( N = 1,008). After establishing measurement invariance in constructs across ethnic groups, analyses revealed few consistent sociodemographic predictors of paternal and maternal cognitive engagement. Patterns of associations between paternal and maternal cognitive engagement and children’s literacy skills were not uniform across ethnic groups. Data have implications for understanding mothers’ and fathers’ contributions to children’s early literacy skills development and for developing parenting intervention programs in Suriname.

Determinants of Paternal Engagement: Investigating Low-Income Fathers’ Caregiving, Play, and Verbal Engagement With Infants

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110315
Author(s):  
Jessica L. McCaig ◽  
Heidi E. Stolz ◽  
Siera J. Reimnitz ◽  
Megan Baumgardner ◽  
Rebecca G. Renegar
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Father Engagement ◽  
Physical Play ◽  
Contextual Determinants ◽  
Paternal Engagement

Extant research highlights the importance of early paternal engagement for children and families. Thus, there is strong support for the exploration of predictors of low-income father engagement. Informed by Belsky’s process model of parenting, this study explores contextual determinants of father–infant engagement (i.e., verbal engagement, physical play, and caregiving) including the unique contributions of the child, the father, and the broader social context. We utilized survey data from a sample of 183 non-residential, cohabitating, and married low-income fathers of infants participating in a home-visiting intervention. Results demonstrated that infant age was associated with increased caregiving and verbal engagement, fathers’ total work hours were negatively correlated with verbal engagement, fathers’ depressive symptoms were linked to increased physical play, and the quality of the coparenting alliance was related to physical play and caregiving. Findings may inform programs designed to promote paternal engagement during infancy.

Black fathers' personal histories, worldviews, and fathering behaviors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janean E. Dilworth‐Bart ◽  
Bakari Wallace ◽  
Oona‐Ife Olaiya
Keyword(s):  
Black Fathers ◽  
Personal Histories

“A Rose out of This Cement”

2018 ◽  
pp. 142-161
Author(s):  
Nikki Jones
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Black Fathers ◽  
Community Residents ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Chapter 5 tells the story of Jay, one of several young men that Eric and his group tried to support shortly in his efforts to break free from the criminal justice system. I first met Jay when he was in his early twenties. He was just beginning to construct the kind of narrative and life that would lead him away from the street. Five years after our first meeting, I found myself speaking at Jay’s funeral. This chapter reveals the limitations of buffer-and-bridge work when it comes to changing the life trajectory of young men like Jay and highlights the limitations of the crime-fighting community when it comes to protecting Black youth from violence. The chapter provides a compelling illustration of how and why individualistic efforts at transformation or narrowly focused calls for the redemption of Black men in general and Black fathers in particular – narratives often embraced by a variety of community residents – will always fall short of delivering young people from the various forms of violence that shape their adolescence.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 282-290
Author(s):  
Libra R. Hilde
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Family ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
African American Family ◽  
American Family ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black Fathers ◽  
The World ◽  
Dominant Narratives

As Americans grapple with the most recent spate of deaths of African American men and women at the hands of the police, we are once again confronting damaging stereotypes about the Black family and Black masculinity rooted in the legacy of slavery. This book explores the masculine hierarchy of slavery that continues to influence current attitudes and shape public policy. Even as the world has changed, attitudes about human hierarchies have remained deeply entrenched. By telling the story of the often quietly heroic efforts that enslaved and free men undertook to be fathers, this book offers a counterpoint to the dominant narratives about the pathology of the African American family and absent Black fathers.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Libra R. Hilde
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
White Men ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Black Fathers ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Slave Quarters ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
American Families

The introduction presents an overview of the literature on the family and masculinity within slavery, arguing that in order to appreciate the adaptability and multiplicity of enslaved families, scholars should focus on how kin units functioned rather than on the form of households. To fully understand fatherhood within slavery, it is critical to recognize multilocal kin networks and to assess the contributions of non-resident, but engaged fathers. This book builds on recent scholarship that posits multiple masculinities in enslaved communities and explores the masculine hierarchy of slavery. In the Old South, masculinity took on a public and private dichotomy with public expressions of manhood available only to white men. Enslaved men could at times exhibit masculinity privately and within the bounds of the plantation and slave quarters. One consistent ideal of manhood in African American communities was that of caretaker. The introduction refutes misperceptions of African American families and missing Black fathers, arguing that because enslaved and postwar freedmen lacked access to recognized patriarchal power, their hidden caretaking behavior has long been obscured.

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