People don't know what they know until they do! In other words, just because the information is out there, that doesn't mean people have access to it or will pay attention to it. Sharing the knowledge of scholarship of all kinds help us to expand what we know by reaching people in different ways to help them make connections that aren't that easy to see. It also helps to initiate dialogues and conversations that can help move us a little bit closer to truth. Fathering from the Margins provides evidence that many people will deny the actual presence and positive actions of black fathers even when it's right in their faces. Some of that denial is influenced by enduring academic and popular misunderstandings of black communities that plague us all. Fortunately, for some of us, all it takes is new information that forces us to think a little differently. It is our hope that the book and the info tiles posted on the Scholarship tab of this website will act as stimuli for seeing black fathers and families clearer no matter who you are. 

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