Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood

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Imprint: Longstreet Press (May 28, 1999)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Longstreet Press
ISBN: 9781563525018

Description of Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood


The fatherless black family is one of America’s most damning stereotypes. Part memoir, part social study, Becoming Dad is filled with the moving stories of black men who are struggling valiantly to become the fathers they never had.

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