"In-depth, qualitative interviews with young Latino fathers are used to bring to light the work young men do as family men in a Midwestern rustbelt barrio. ... This study focuses on young Chicano fathers, most of whom do not reside with their children. It finds that these young men go to great lengths to construct and maintain relations with their families, their children's families, and neighborhood institutions in order to construct culturally meaningful and valued expressions of masculinity and fatherhood."--From abstract.
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