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Young, triumphant, and Black : overcoming the tyranny of segregated minds in desegregated schools / edited by Tarek C. Grantham, Michelle Frazier Trotman Scott, and Deborah A. Harmon

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Waco, Texas : Prufrock Press Inc., [2013]
Physical Description
xii, 358 pages ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Grantham, Tarek C., Trotman Scott, Michelle Frazier, and Harmon, Deborah A.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction / Deborah A. Harmon -- Section I Access Delayed or Denied -- ch. 2 Educational Malpractice in Gifted and Fine Arts Programs / Erinn Fears Floyd -- ch. 3 Finally Gifted / Jaimon Jones -- ch. 4 "I Keep On Knocking, But They Won't Let Me In": Personal and Professional Insights on Access to Advanced Programs / Valija C. Rose -- Section II Black Males Overcoming -- ch. 5 E-Motivating Malcolm: Academic Achievement via Electronic Media / Gilman W. Whiting -- ch. 6 Segregated at the Gateway to Higher Education: Alex Before and After High School / Angie C. Roberts-Dixon -- ch. 7 Ain't That Peculiar: Gifted, Black, and Male Overcoming the Fourth Grade Failure Syndrome / Samuel J. Maddox -- ch. 8 From Nothing to Something / Christopher Oliver Johnson -- ch. 9 Two Gifted African American Brothers Achieving in Spite of the Odds / Renae D. Mayes -- Section III Resilient Black Females -- ch. 10 Age Ain't Nuthin' But a Number / Ain A. Grooms -- ch. 11 To Be Gifted, Black, and Pregnant in High School and College / Tarek C. Grantham -- ch. 12 "Black and Ivy": Becoming the Model Minority / Shani Harmon -- ch. 13 Giftedness and Black Girlhood / Patrice S. Bounds -- Section IV Negotiating Multiple Identities: Ability, Race, Class, and Place -- ch. 14 On Growing Up Black, Rural, and (Un)Gifted / Sheneka M. Williams -- ch. 15 Finding My Identity in a Gifted Magnet Middle School / Dawn L. Curry -- ch. 16 Finding and Redefining Ghanaian Identity as a Gifted African in America / Beryl Ann Otumfuor -- ch. 17 Becoming Comfortable With Myself, by Myself / Kiesa Ayana Harmon -- Section V Gifted Black Students in College -- ch. 18 "Being an Only": The Experiences of a Gifted African American Student in an Elite Scholarship Program / Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby -- ch. 19 Jumping Hurdles, Beating the Odds / Karen Harris Brown -- ch. 20 Gifted Black Male Athletes' Intercollegiate Experiences Negate the Dumb Black Jock Stereotype / Joseph N. Cooper -- Section VI Village Perspectives on Gifted Black Children -- ch. 21 Knowing But Not Knowing: Living With a High-Ability Child / Toni Jones -- ch. 22 The Power and Penalty of Ensuring Educational Access and Resources for One's Own Children: A Mad Mom's Memoir / Robin Vann Lynch -- ch. 23 My Child Left Behind / Ursula Thomas -- ch. 24 Knowledge Denied: An Information Divide / Kristina Henry Collins -- ch. 25 Parenting Gifted Siblings / Sonja L. Fox -- ch. 26 She's Been Here Before / Sabreen U. Jai -- Section VII Gifted Black Students' Perspectives on the Village -- ch. 27 Go Head Baby, Let the Lord Use You / Shawn Adams -- ch. 28 Knowing Everything But "One": A Narrative of an Academically Gifted African American Male / Shailen Singh -- ch. 29 Conversations With Dad / Bantu D. Gross -- ch. 30 Young, Gifted, and African American in Iowa / Asabi Dean -- Section VIII Pathways Uplifting Giftedness in Blacks -- ch. 31 The Impact of a Single "Test": Thriving as a Black Gifted Female From a Single-Parent Family / Cherranda Smith -- ch. 32 Put a Little Paint Where It Ain't: The Unwelcomed Infusion of Hip-Hop in Schools / J. Sean Callahan -- ch. 33 "Back in the Day, Man, I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me Like It Really Is": Liberatory Education for Gifted African Americans / Eric M. Bridges.
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ISBN
9781618210296 (pbk.)
1618210297 (pbk.)
Note
AN AP PLUS! BOOK. ED: UNIV. OF GEORGIA. TEXTBOOK--GRAD.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2013
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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