Lexington Books
Pages: 110
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66690-493-2 • Hardback • July 2023 • $85.00 • (£65.00)
978-1-66690-494-9 • eBook • July 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Jo Hawkins-Jones is professor of literacy education and service-learning faculty at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Myron B. Labat is associate professor at Mississippi State University.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Window Seat
I. Misunderstood and Invisible: Black Male Identity
II. Same Ole South
III. The Black Family
IV. Hard Knock Life
V. “Too Many Negative Experiences”
VI. How Violence Enters the School House
Part II: Opening Doors for Change
VII. Subconscious Lower Expectations: “I Was Just Young and Didn’t Care”
VIII. Changing the Trajectory
References
Index
About the Authors