A different portrait of black fatherhood |
A different portrait of black fatherhood
In Pictures
BBC News
2018-03-06
Zun Lee was raised in Germany by Korean parents – but as an adult he discovered his real father was a black American with whom his mother had had a brief affair.
After this discovery, he began to explore fatherhood among black Americans.
Lee says the US media mainly portrays black fathers in one of two ways:
- the absent father, often portrayed as a “deadbeat”
- the traditional family patriarch, as seen in TV programmes such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
And his project, on display at the Bronx Documentary Centre, in New York, aims for a more balanced and nuanced portrayal.
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