9781573221719

Raising Fences

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781573221719

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Overview

In the inner-city African American community in which Michael Datcher grew up, he and the boys he hung with all lacked fathers or father figures. And yet, he argues, despite what the media might say about black men, the dream he and his male friends nurtured was the same dream as that of most Americans: to have a family, a house, love, stability. He calls it their picket-fence dream. Raising Fences is Datcher's story of his own experience of being black and longing for stability and family. But it's also the story of other young black men and how they turn their reality -- instability, violence, and a lack of male role models -- into that picket-fence dream.

ISBN-13

9781573221719

ISBN-10

1573221716

Weight

1.10 Pounds

Dimensions

6.50 x 1.00 x 9.50 In

List Price

$23.95

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

272 pages

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Published On

2001-03-05



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