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This book for, about, and by Males of Color, amplifies triumphs and successes while documenting trials and tribulations that are instructive, inspiring, and praiseworthy. This book will be a must-read for every Male of Color.
Contents
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Section I. Familial Impact On Education.
Chapter 1. Pushing for a Better Life; Wil Greer.
Chapter 2. Choices; George Suttles.
Chapter 3. Black Boy Rising; Larry J. Walker.
Chapter 4. My Son Has a Purpose Too: A Father's Story of Autism; George E. Stewart II.
Chapter 5. Where the Waters Met: A Story of Friendship, Brotherhood, and Service; Robert Mays.
Chapter 6. Freedom of Forgiveness; Zaccheus L. Moss.
Chapter 7. I Might Cry, But I'll Get There; MarQo D. Patton.
Chapter 8. Personal Agency: An Under-Discussed Factor for Successful Life Outcomes of Black Males; Michael T. Owens.
Chapter 9. Still Standing: Bumps in the Road Along a Path to Greater Success; Jason Rivera.
Chapter 10. Poverty and Education; C. Sheldon Woods.
Chapter 11. The Destruction of Drugs; Joel Bratton Jr.
Section II. Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality.
Chapter 12. From Unseen to Seen: The Power of Significant Others; Derrick Robinson.
Chapter 13. One Hundred Percent Intelligent Black Child: Black and Exceptional in Mathematics; Nickolaus A. Ortiz.
Chapter 14. Of Pain and Peach Fuzz: A Chief Equity Officer Rants; John D. Marshall.
Chapter 15. Thank You So Much for Asking; Darreon D. Greer Sr.
Chapter 16. Things Fall Apart to Fall in Place; Jajuan S. Johnson.
Chapter 17. The Menace of Immigrants: Reflections of Growing Up in Organisms Against My Development; Oscar Espinoza-Parra.
Chapter 18. Be Yourself and the World Will Adjust; Tyrone C. Hamler.
Chapter 19. Memoir of a Former Impostor; C. Emmanuel Little.
Section III. Racial Discrimination.
Chapter 20. What Was Intended for My Harm, God Intended for My Good: A Black Male Overcoming the Odds; Lucian Yates III.
Chapter 21. Coming Home: The Social and Educational Consequences of Being a Formerly Incarcerated Chicano Convict Criminologist; Oscar Fabian Soto.
Chapter 22. When I Woke Up to Being Black; Christopher J. P. Sewell.
Chapter 23. The Power of Forgiveness; Joseph Matthews.
Chapter 24. Stony the Road We Trod: Black Males Share Lived Experiences With Police Brutality; Antonio Ellis and Eddie Vanderhorst.
Chapter 25. The Race; Dwight Gordon II.
Chapter 26. A Black Man's Story of Empowerment: Why I Stopped Begging Whites to Accept My Blackness; Raymond Adams.
Chapter 27. The Emanuel Church Massacre and the School Across the Street: A Black Man's Narrative of Two Racialized Conflicts; Nathaniel Bryan.
Chapter 28. From Hopelessness to the Hallways of Higher Education; Lawrence Scott.
Chapter 29. To Leave or Not to Leave: That Was My Contemplation; Jamel Miller.
Section IV. Overcoming Narrative Of Failure.
Chapter 30. Becoming the Victor; Victor L. Powell.
Chapter 31. Overcoming the Obstacles and Breaking the Barriers; Jeremiah N. Taylor.
Chapter 32. Man Enough to Ask for Help: Overcoming a Learning Disability and Family Issues; David C. Hughes.
Chapter 33. For Special Educators Who Have Considered Giving Up When the Rainbow Is Enough: A Retrospective and Prospective Essay on Being a Black Male in Specialized Education; Brandon C. S. Wallace.
Chapter 34. Special Education to Higher Education: Speech Impediment to a Degree in Speech Communications; Burgess Mitchell.
Chapter 35. From a Refugee Child to Success in America; Alex Sekwat.
Chapter 36. I Am Not Supposed to Be Here: Why Numbers Sometimes Lie; Stuart Rhoden.
Chapter 37. Social Capital and Its Impact on My Personal and Academic Success; Solomon Tention.
Chapter 38. Nobody Told Me the Road Would Be Easy; Dante Pelzer.
Chapter 39. I'm Not My Chair; Michael S. Washington.
Chapter 40. On Stuttering and Speech Impediments: Stepping Stones Not Speed Bumps; Charles A. Barrett.
Chapter 41. Keeping My Head Above Water in a River of Whiteness; LaMarcus J. Hall.
Chapter 42. Rising Above a Tracked System; Brian K. Williams.
Chapter 43. Even Today I Remember the Pain; Gregory Washington.
Chapter 44. The Test of a Man; Verontae Deams.
Chapter 45. Rising Through the Concrete Like a Rose; Nathan Stephens.
Chapter 46. Akoben: The Ancestors' Call; Mwalimu Donkor Issa Minors.
Section V. Sexual And Substance Abuse.
Chapter 47. Forged by My Foundation; Michael A. Robinson.
Chapter 48. Alone Was My Safe Place; Raphael Crawford.
Chapter 49. Won't He Do It ...: From Challenges to Triumphs; Derek Irvin.
Chapter 50. From Victim to Victor: I Don't Want to Play!; Robert A. Massey.
Chapter 51. Learning to Overcome Excessive Drinking; Charles Brown III.
Section VI. Experiences In Higher Education.
Chapter 52. How Spirit and Soul Led Me to a Life as a Psychological Scientist; Brandon E. Gamble.
Chapter 53. Do Not Apply to College; Eugene Pitchford III.
Chapter 54. Challenging Transitions: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward; Brian A. Burt.
Chapter 55. Epilogue.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
