Jorja Leap

Project Fatherhood (eBook, ePUB)

A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 for the next generation. Although the group begins as a forum for them to discuss issues relating to their roles as parents, it slowly grows to mean much more: it becomes a place where they can share jokes and traumatic experiences, joys and sorrows. As the men repair their own lives and gain confidence, the group also becomes a place for them to plan and carry out activities to help the Watts community grow as well as thrive. By immersing herself in the lived experiences of those working to overcome their circumstances, Leap not only dramatically illustrates the realities of fathers trying to do the right thing, but she also paints a larger sociological portrait of how institutional injustices become manifest in the lives of ordinary people. At a time in which racial justice seems more elusive than ever-stymied by the generational cycles of mass incarceration and the cradle-to-prison pipeline-the group's development over time demonstrates real-life movement toward solutions as the men help one another make their families and their community stronger.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807014530
• Artikelnr.: 42893726

Autorenporträt

Jorja Leap, MSW, PhD, is the Director of the Social Justice Research Partnership at UCLA, and a nationally recognized expert in gangs, crisis intervention and trauma response. She is the author of highly acclaimed books, including Jumped In and Project Fatherhood.

Inhaltsangabe

ONE: Watts
TWO: The Father Wound
THREE: Neighborhood
FOUR: Are You Gonna Leave Us, Too?
FIVE: Brothers
SIX: Abuse
SEVEN: Leelee
EIGHT: Fatherhood
NINE: Daddy’s Girl
TEN: Baby Mamas
ELEVEN: Men at Work
TWELVE: Job Creation
THIRTEEN: Big Mama
FOURTEEN: The Light Comes In
FIFTEEN: Checkmated
SIXTEEN: The Nation
SEVENTEEN: Hero of the Neighborhood
EIGHTEEN: Twins
NINETEEN: We Are All Family
TWENTY: Letter from Scotland
TWENTY-ONE: Photo Finish
TWENTY-TWO: We Are Your Daddies
TWENTY-THREE: Hood Day
TWENTY-FOUR: Sugarbear
TWENTY-FIVE: Twelve More Days
TWENTY-SIX: Walking Through the Door
TWENTY-SEVEN: Jamel
EPILOGUE
THE MEN OF PROJECT FATHERHOOD JORDAN DOWNS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS