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Roberta L. Coles is professor of sociology in the Department of Social & Cultural Sciences at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she teaches courses on family, race and ethnicity, food and water. She is author of Best Kept Secret: Black Single Fathers; co-editor of Myth of the Missing Black Father: The Persistence of Black Fatherhood in America; and a textbook Race & Family. Her publications have appeared in the Sociological Quarterly, The Sociological Review, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Aging, among others.
During our conversation, Professor Coles talks about:
– Why did she choose to study about race and ethnicity
– Why did she decide to do research about Black fatherhood
– Both books and some of the stories associated with them
– If it was easy for her to get Black men to be open with her
– Some of the stereotypes associated with Black fathers
– Some of the reasons why it get grant money to do research on Black fathers
– What things that she found out about Black fatherhood that she was unaware of at the start of her research
– What society can to help Black men parent better
– If she thinks that things are getting better for Black fathers
You can contact Professor Coles via: roberta.coles@marquette.edu
Click on the following link to read some of Professor Coles selected publications: http://works.bepress.com/roberta_coles
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