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A group of former gang members come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?”
 
In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration. These men, black and brown, from late adolescence to middle age, are trying to heal themselves and their community, and above all to build their identities as fathers. Each week, they come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?”

Project Fatherhood follows the lives of the men as they struggle with the pain of their own losses, the chronic pressures of poverty and unemployment, and the unquenchable desire to do better and provide more

Project Fatherhood A Story of Courage and Healing

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      Publisher Beacon Press
      Published 7 June 2016
      ISBN-13 9780807077870
      978-0807077870
      ISBN-10 0807077879
      Also in:
      Gender studies: men and boys Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A group of former gang members come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?”
       
      In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration. These men, black and brown, from late adolescence to middle age, are trying to heal themselves and their community, and above all to build their identities as fathers. Each week, they come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?”

      Project Fatherhood       follows the lives of the men as they struggle with the pain of their own losses, the chronic pressures of poverty and unemployment, and the unquenchable desire to do better and provide more

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