Tasha L. Alston is chief diversity and inclusion officer at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

Alston has put to rest any questions centered on African Americans involvement in children’s education. This work explores the various ways that parents can support children’s education and encourages the reader to let go of rigid historical views of what it means to be supportive of children’s education. I would argue that this book counters the decades long negative narratives of absenteeism and incarceration placed upon African American fathers, and must be regarded as a greatly important contribution to the African American fatherhood literature. It is an essential contribution to fatherhood scholarship and analysis.

• Foreword by Rahman J. Dukes: Be proud, black man.IntroductionChapter 1: Literature ReviewChapter 2: African American Fathers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education: Priveleging the “Voice” Of Black Fathers’ Through Narrative and Critical Race TheoryChapter 3: Engaged, But Not in School: Black Fathers’ Participation in their Children’s LearningChapter 4: Conclusion, Implications and Strategies

Tasha L. Alston is chief diversity and inclusion officer at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

Alston has put to rest any questions centered on African Americans involvement in children’s education. This work explores the various ways that parents can support children’s education and encourages the reader to let go of rigid historical views of what it means to be supportive of children’s education. I would argue that this book counters the decades long negative narratives of absenteeism and incarceration placed upon African American fathers, and must be regarded as a greatly important contribution to the African American fatherhood literature. It is an essential contribution to fatherhood scholarship and analysis.

• Foreword by Rahman J. Dukes: Be proud, black man.IntroductionChapter 1: Literature ReviewChapter 2: African American Fathers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education: Priveleging the “Voice” Of Black Fathers’ Through Narrative and Critical Race TheoryChapter 3: Engaged, But Not in School: Black Fathers’ Participation in their Children’s LearningChapter 4: Conclusion, Implications and Strategies

Tasha L. Alston is chief diversity and inclusion officer at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

Alston has put to rest any questions centered on African Americans involvement in children’s education. This work explores the various ways that parents can support children’s education and encourages the reader to let go of rigid historical views of what it means to be supportive of children’s education. I would argue that this book counters the decades long negative narratives of absenteeism and incarceration placed upon African American fathers, and must be regarded as a greatly important contribution to the African American fatherhood literature. It is an essential contribution to fatherhood scholarship and analysis.

• Foreword by Rahman J. Dukes: Be proud, black man.IntroductionChapter 1: Literature ReviewChapter 2: African American Fathers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education: Priveleging the “Voice” Of Black Fathers’ Through Narrative and Critical Race TheoryChapter 3: Engaged, But Not in School: Black Fathers’ Participation in their Children’s LearningChapter 4: Conclusion, Implications and Strategies