More than 50 percent of black children are being raised by single mothers. This book examines the future of black boys in the hands of African American mothers, showing 27 mothers who are raising their male children successfully. Some of the issues addressed are manhood, masculinity, media, music, peer pressure, academic achievement, the lack of fathers, and goal setting. This book hopes to change the way society views, engages, and treats single-mother families and serves as a reference for mothers looking for help in raising sons.
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Lawson Bush V is on the faculty at Claremont Graduate University and is the founder and director of Imani Saturday Academy. He lives in Pomona, California.
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Dr. Lawson Bush, V has contributed a scholarly masterpiece to the African American parenting genre. Anyone interested in a definitive answer to the question of whether African American Mothers are capable of raising African American Sons, must read his novel. Dr. Bush, V provides readers with an historic and contextual analysis about: definitions of masculinity, gender acculturation, European (mainstream American) family constructs, and African family constructs. By surveying mothers and their sons, Dr. Bush, V has gleened (best practies) and in turn, discovered sound (parenting strategies). He ends his novel with a cliff-hanger - - What is that unique and unspoken "it" that most African American males and females believe African American Mothers are not equipped with, to convey to their African American Sons, in order to make them into men?
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I thought this was a great book.So many mothers are forced to raise their children alone.I plan to give this book to every single mother i know.
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While I was gathering information for this book, I went on a camping trip with young Black males, four to twelve years of age. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black manhood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, United States, Bureau of the Census, Manhood Lessons, Southern California New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Black Families by Harriette Pipes McAdoo in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Black Macho (Platform Books) by Michele Wallace on page 47, and Back Matter
- African American (American Regional Cooking Library) by Rosa Waters on page 81, and page 106
- Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition (English and English Edition) by Haki R. Madhubuti on page 1, and Back Matter
- Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classics) by Michele Wallace on page 47, and Back Matter
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- Stickin' To, Watchin' Over, and Gettin' With: An African American Parent's Guide to Discipline by Howard Stevenson in Back Matter
- Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone: The Brown V. Board of Education Decision by Joyce Carol Thomas on page 91
- Why Boys Don't Talk - and Why it Matters by Susan Morris Shaffer in Back Matter
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