Roberta L Coles
Biographic Data
| ID | 120796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta L Coles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta L |
| FAMILY NAME | Coles |
| SIGNATURE | COLES R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Single‐Father Families: A Review of the Literature
The number of children residing in single‐father families in the United States quadrupled as a proportion of children's living arrangements during the past few decades of the 20th century. Research on single fathers also increased and changed in nature. This article is a review of the research on single fathers and their families from the 1970s until recently, focusing on modifications in methodology and theoretical underpinnings. In general, res…
Just Doing What They Gotta Do: Single Black Custodial Fathers Coping With the Stresses and Reaping the Rewards of Parenting
For single African American custodial fathers, parenting stress is exacerbated by the cultural expectation that Black fathers are 'normally' absent and by the clustering of stresses that Black men are more likely to encounter. This sample of African American fathers have used a repertoire of problem-focused and cognitive coping strategies, including some that are frequently considered 'culturally specific.' Twenty Black single custodial fathers a…
Special Reviewers
War and the Contest over National Identity
This paper looks at a recent historical moment in which the American national identity was defined and contested in the public arena. The Persian Gulf crisis of 1990-91 presents a case in point in which official actors attempted to define the American character and in so doing prescribed particular actions necessary to fulfill what it means to be an American confidence. He described Americans as unique in esteemed values and America as the only c…
Manifest Destiny Adapted for 1990s' War Discourse: Mission and Destiny Intertwined
Civil religious themes have long been integral to public discourse in America. Specifically the themes of mission and destiny, best known in the form of Manifest Destiny, still carry the country through periods of foreign conflict. This paper analyzes the discourses of President George Bush during the Persian Gulf War and President Bill Clinton during the Kosovo conflict. I identify the themes of mission by example and mission by intervention and…
Black Single Fathers: Choosing to Parent Full-Time
This ethnographic study uses the narratives of African American, single, full-time fathers to explore the motivations precipitating their choice to parent. While the fathers had in common a number of demographic characteristics, such as full employment, residence, and support systems, which factored into their timing of and ability to take full custody, none of these are salient in their own narratives expressing why they wanted to be full-time f…
African American single full-time fathers: How are they doing
Elderly narrative reflections on the contradictions in Turkish village family life after migration of adult children
Building the Clinton Legacy Through Frame Alignment
This article examines Clinton's rhetorical strategy for creating a legacy in light of the imminent end of his second and final term as president. By examining Clinton's public discourse from 1997 to 1999, with special attention to the period from September 1998 to June 1999, this article argues that Clinton used the frame of his race initiative to centripetally incorporate varied events and policies to redefine and bolster his legacy in the after…
Odd Folk and Ordinary People: Collective Identity Disparities Between Peace Groups in the Persian Gulf Crisis
This article provides a comparative case study of the development of identity distinctions between two peace movement organizations during the Persian Gulf crisis. Distinctions between these two SMOs' identities are traced through their collective action frames and through self evaluative framing. It is found that the identities are related to the SMOs' organizational structures, their career stages, and their desired positions in relation to the…
Peaceniks and Warmongers' Framing Fracas on the Home Front: Dominant and Opposition Discourse Interaction during the Persian Gulf Crisis
Research on collective action framing has tended to focus on inter- and intramovement interpretation of grievances, often assuming that hegemonic frames are taken for granted. The Persian Gulf conflict of 1990–1991 offers an empirical opportunity to extend the theoretical boundaries of social movement framing by incorporating, and identifying, the active framing strategies of dominant actors. From this vantage point, we can begin to see in what w…
Black Single Fathers: Choosing to Parent Full-Time
This ethnographic study uses the narratives of African American, single, full-time fathers to explore the motivations precipitating their choice to parent. While the fathers had in common a number of demographic characteristics, such as full employment, residence, and support systems, which factored into their timing of and ability to take full custody, none of these are salient in their own narratives expressing why they wanted to be full-time f…
Elderly narrative reflections on the contradictions in Turkish village family life after migration of adult children
Peaceniks and Warmongers' Framing Fracas on the Home Front: Dominant and Opposition Discourse Interaction during the Persian Gulf Crisis
Research on collective action framing has tended to focus on inter- and intramovement interpretation of grievances, often assuming that hegemonic frames are taken for granted. The Persian Gulf conflict of 1990–1991 offers an empirical opportunity to extend the theoretical boundaries of social movement framing by incorporating, and identifying, the active framing strategies of dominant actors. From this vantage point, we can begin to see in what w…
War and the Contest over National Identity
This paper looks at a recent historical moment in which the American national identity was defined and contested in the public arena. The Persian Gulf crisis of 1990-91 presents a case in point in which official actors attempted to define the American character and in so doing prescribed particular actions necessary to fulfill what it means to be an American confidence. He described Americans as unique in esteemed values and America as the only c…
Odd Folk and Ordinary People: Collective Identity Disparities Between Peace Groups in the Persian Gulf Crisis
This article provides a comparative case study of the development of identity distinctions between two peace movement organizations during the Persian Gulf crisis. Distinctions between these two SMOs' identities are traced through their collective action frames and through self evaluative framing. It is found that the identities are related to the SMOs' organizational structures, their career stages, and their desired positions in relation to the…
Manifest Destiny Adapted for 1990s' War Discourse: Mission and Destiny Intertwined
Civil religious themes have long been integral to public discourse in America. Specifically the themes of mission and destiny, best known in the form of Manifest Destiny, still carry the country through periods of foreign conflict. This paper analyzes the discourses of President George Bush during the Persian Gulf War and President Bill Clinton during the Kosovo conflict. I identify the themes of mission by example and mission by intervention and…
Just Doing What They Gotta Do: Single Black Custodial Fathers Coping With the Stresses and Reaping the Rewards of Parenting
For single African American custodial fathers, parenting stress is exacerbated by the cultural expectation that Black fathers are 'normally' absent and by the clustering of stresses that Black men are more likely to encounter. This sample of African American fathers have used a repertoire of problem-focused and cognitive coping strategies, including some that are frequently considered 'culturally specific.' Twenty Black single custodial fathers a…
African American single full-time fathers: How are they doing
Building the Clinton Legacy Through Frame Alignment
This article examines Clinton's rhetorical strategy for creating a legacy in light of the imminent end of his second and final term as president. By examining Clinton's public discourse from 1997 to 1999, with special attention to the period from September 1998 to June 1999, this article argues that Clinton used the frame of his race initiative to centripetally incorporate varied events and policies to redefine and bolster his legacy in the after…
Peaceniks and Warmongers' Framing Fracas on the Home Front: Dominant and Opposition Discourse Interaction during the Persian Gulf Crisis
Research on collective action framing has tended to focus on inter- and intramovement interpretation of grievances, often assuming that hegemonic frames are taken for granted. The Persian Gulf conflict of 1990–1991 offers an empirical opportunity to extend the theoretical boundaries of social movement framing by incorporating, and identifying, the active framing strategies of dominant actors. From this vantage point, we can begin to see in what w…
Odd Folk and Ordinary People: Collective Identity Disparities Between Peace Groups in the Persian Gulf Crisis
This article provides a comparative case study of the development of identity distinctions between two peace movement organizations during the Persian Gulf crisis. Distinctions between these two SMOs' identities are traced through their collective action frames and through self evaluative framing. It is found that the identities are related to the SMOs' organizational structures, their career stages, and their desired positions in relation to the…
African American single full-time fathers: How are they doing
Elderly narrative reflections on the contradictions in Turkish village family life after migration of adult children
Building the Clinton Legacy Through Frame Alignment
This article examines Clinton's rhetorical strategy for creating a legacy in light of the imminent end of his second and final term as president. By examining Clinton's public discourse from 1997 to 1999, with special attention to the period from September 1998 to June 1999, this article argues that Clinton used the frame of his race initiative to centripetally incorporate varied events and policies to redefine and bolster his legacy in the after…
War and the Contest over National Identity
This paper looks at a recent historical moment in which the American national identity was defined and contested in the public arena. The Persian Gulf crisis of 1990-91 presents a case in point in which official actors attempted to define the American character and in so doing prescribed particular actions necessary to fulfill what it means to be an American confidence. He described Americans as unique in esteemed values and America as the only c…
Manifest Destiny Adapted for 1990s' War Discourse: Mission and Destiny Intertwined
Civil religious themes have long been integral to public discourse in America. Specifically the themes of mission and destiny, best known in the form of Manifest Destiny, still carry the country through periods of foreign conflict. This paper analyzes the discourses of President George Bush during the Persian Gulf War and President Bill Clinton during the Kosovo conflict. I identify the themes of mission by example and mission by intervention and…
Black Single Fathers: Choosing to Parent Full-Time
This ethnographic study uses the narratives of African American, single, full-time fathers to explore the motivations precipitating their choice to parent. While the fathers had in common a number of demographic characteristics, such as full employment, residence, and support systems, which factored into their timing of and ability to take full custody, none of these are salient in their own narratives expressing why they wanted to be full-time f…
Special Reviewers
Just Doing What They Gotta Do: Single Black Custodial Fathers Coping With the Stresses and Reaping the Rewards of Parenting
For single African American custodial fathers, parenting stress is exacerbated by the cultural expectation that Black fathers are 'normally' absent and by the clustering of stresses that Black men are more likely to encounter. This sample of African American fathers have used a repertoire of problem-focused and cognitive coping strategies, including some that are frequently considered 'culturally specific.' Twenty Black single custodial fathers a…
Single‐Father Families: A Review of the Literature
The number of children residing in single‐father families in the United States quadrupled as a proportion of children's living arrangements during the past few decades of the 20th century. Research on single fathers also increased and changed in nature. This article is a review of the research on single fathers and their families from the 1970s until recently, focusing on modifications in methodology and theoretical underpinnings. In general, res…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)