ABSTRACT
To understand how this high-achieving group of African American collegeage men are succeeding, we interviewed the fathers who raised them. Most of these men were the biological fathers and were living with the sons’ mothers. In a few cases, the father was a stepfather or a single father who had raised his son alone. Through our information gathering, we often felt we were weaving together threads that would result in a magnificent tapestry of family culture, history, and life. Part of that construction meant learning from these fathers about their own early experiences and how those experiences influenced how they raised, and are still raising, their sons.
