Decent Daddy, Imperfect Daddy: Black Male Rap Artists’ Views of Fatherhood and the Family

Oware, Matthew

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“…The set of actions they perform is often in response to what they broadly believe fathers should do and the specific options they believe are available to them. For instance, a recent and innovative study used the cultural product of rap music to investigate how Black male rappers express their feelings about fatherhood and the opportunities and obstacles attached to fatherhood (Oware 2011). Individuals’ reflections within the music highlighted Black fathers’ group-level concerns regarding parenting (Oware 2011).…”

Section: A New Agenda For Cultural Analyses Of Black Fatherhoodmentioning

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“…For instance, a recent and innovative study used the cultural product of rap music to investigate how Black male rappers express their feelings about fatherhood and the opportunities and obstacles attached to fatherhood (Oware 2011). Individuals’ reflections within the music highlighted Black fathers’ group-level concerns regarding parenting (Oware 2011). While rap lyrics are certainly influenced by record company and consumer market demands, Oware (2011) argues that explorations of Black male cultural products provide researchers the opportunity to investigate fatherhood themes that are important to Black men.…”

Section: A New Agenda For Cultural Analyses Of Black Fatherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Individuals’ reflections within the music highlighted Black fathers’ group-level concerns regarding parenting (Oware 2011). While rap lyrics are certainly influenced by record company and consumer market demands, Oware (2011) argues that explorations of Black male cultural products provide researchers the opportunity to investigate fatherhood themes that are important to Black men. The use of ethnographic interviews and cultural products provide a solid foundation for investigating the myriad ways Black men think about and navigate fathering.…”

Section: A New Agenda For Cultural Analyses Of Black Fatherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Diversity and Meaning in the Study of Black Fatherhood

Johnson

Young

2016

Du Bois Rev.

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For the past several decades, numerous studies have focused on the so-called “crisis of Black fatherhood”—that is, the many ways in which Black fathers struggle to fulfill traditional paternal roles and duties. Given major shifts in both the structural conditions and cultural expectations of fatherhood in general over the past century, we argue that it is necessary to reestablish not only what Black fatherhood looks like today—in particular, the internal diversity and dynamism of this category—but also how Black men (as well as other members of Black families and communities) make sense of these changes and meaningfully negotiate their implications. We outline a two-pronged research agenda that: first, identifies gaps in the existing literature that limit our knowledge of the full range of Black fathering practices and experiences; and second, reclaims and repurposes “cultural analysis,” not to pathologize “what’s wrong with Black families and fathers,” but to shed much needed light on the ways in which Black fathers themselves process and make meaning of their roles and realities.

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Section: A New Agenda For Cultural Analyses Of Black Fatherhoodmentioning

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Diversity and Meaning in the Study of Black Fatherhood

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2016

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“…Similarly, the film Daddy's Little Girls shows Idris Elba's performance of involved fatherhood and his struggles to balance the roles of financial provider, physical protector, and emotional caregiver within his three daughters' lives. Rapper Nas's 2004 song Daughters also captures some of the themes that anchor father-daughter relationships, such as involvement (see also Oware, 2011). By probing the social dimensions of Kobe's commemoration, this study contributes a clearer understanding of how father-daughter relationships operate as a cultural resource that facilitates reputational change within mediatized contexts.…”

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Remembering Kobe Bryant as a Girl Dad: Race, Gender, and Reputation Repair

Alston

2021

J Afr Am St

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Reputational entrepreneurs act as gatekeepers of memory and manage national figures' remembrance within a competitive field of interpretative possibilities. However, research overlooks the gendered resources that reputational entrepreneurs use to repair ruined reputations. This article examines how reputational entrepreneurs use girl dad as a commemorative device to construct a posthumous reputation for Kobe Bryant: a black male professional basketball player and accused sexual assailant. Drawing together an analysis of media reports following Kobe's death, this article demonstrates that reputational entrepreneurs negotiated a social field where individuals frame Kobe as an athlete-and-sexual-assailant by minimizing the sexual assault accusation and magnifying his parental status. Reputational entrepreneurs use girl dad to enact a reputational strategy of transcendence that emphasizes Kobe exceeded the boundaries of sport and lingering sexual shame to achieve the social expectations that call for men to act as involved fathers. This article sheds light on how gendered meanings anchor invocations of the past and assist in the redemption of tarnished reputations.

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“…Extant scholarship regarding Black fathers is extensive and spans several decades (Abdill, 2018 ; Adams, 2019 ; Cazenave, 1979 ; Connor & White, 2006 ; Daniel, 1975 ; Hamer, 1997 , 2001 ; Hutchinson, 1997 ; Kim, 2014 ; McAdoo, 1981 ; Oware, 2011 ; Prinsloo, 2006 ; Randles, 2020 ; Smith, 2008 ). Within this broad literature are numerous investigations of various aspects of Black fatherhood.…”

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“I’d Rather Be with Them Than Doing Anything Else”: Kobe Bryant’s Status as the MVP of Girl’s Dads

Chaney

2021

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Over 40 years ago, Cazenave ( 1979 ) provided one of the first scholarly examinations of how middle-income Black fathers defined the provider role. Since that time, scholars have studied the realities of biological and social fathers (Coles et al., 2010 ; Connor & White, 2006 ; Hamer, 2001 , 1997 ; McDougal III & George III, 2016 ; Ransaw, 2017 ), as well as the relationship between fathering and sport (Fletcher, 2020 ). This qualitative work examined the words the late Kobe Bryant (January 23, 1978–January 26, 2020) used to describe his role as father to four daughters. To determine the underlying messages behind Bryant’s words, I used Phenomenology as the theoretical framework. Qualitative analysis of the words featured in the Insider article, “Kobe Bryant’s 10 Most Touching Quotes on Fatherhood and Raising Daughters” By Emily Cavanaugh (February 25, 2020 ) revealed three themes: (1) Bryant made being a present father a priority; (2) Bryant publicly praised his late daughter Gianna and her sisters; and (3) Bryant saw himself as a role model to children. Most important, Bryant’s fame and status in professional basketball along with his narratives regarding being a father to daughters is a strong, enduring counter narrative to the “absent Black father” trope that is common in society. The work also discussed the reasons why in light of the rape scandal Kobe Bryant is a good role model. Implications for how fatherhood will shape the Bryant legacy will be discussed.

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Decent Daddy, Imperfect Daddy: Black Male Rap Artists’ Views of Fatherhood and the Family

Abstract: Research examining contemporary African-American male fathers has either presented them as being absent and uninvolved in their children's lives (Moynihan 1965;Anderson 1999) or engaged with their children-despite structural or institutional constraints they face (Edin et al.

Cited by 5 publications

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Diversity and Meaning in the Study of Black Fatherhood

Diversity and Meaning in the Study of Black Fatherhood

Remembering Kobe Bryant as a Girl Dad: Race, Gender, and Reputation Repair

“I’d Rather Be with Them Than Doing Anything Else”: Kobe Bryant’s Status as the MVP of Girl’s Dads

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