Gumbo for the Soul III: Males of Color Share Their Stories, Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations PDF
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Gumbo for the Soul A volume in Contemporary Perspectives on Multicultural Gifted Education Donna Y. Ford and Malik S. Henfield Series Editors Gumbo for the Soul Males of Color Share Their Stories, Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations edited by Brian L. Wright Lucian Yates, III University of Memphis Kentucky State University Nathaniel Bryan Michael A. Robinson Miami University Forest Of The Rain Productions Christopher J. P. Sewell Kianga Thomas Williams College Norfolk State University INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING, INC. Charlotte, NC • www.infoagepub.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov ISBN: 978-1-64113-564-1 (Paperback) 978-1-64113-565-8 (Hardcover) 978-1-64113-566-5 (ebook) Copyright © 2019 Information Age Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS Acknowledgments ...............................................................................vii Introduction ..........................................................................................ix SECTION I FAMILIAL IMPACT ON EDUCATION 1 Pushing for a Better Life .......................................................................3 Wil Greer 2 Choices ...................................................................................................7 George Suttles 3 Black Boy Rising ..................................................................................11 Larry J. Walker 4 My Son Has a Purpose Too: A Father’s Story of Autism ...................17 George E. Stewart II 5 Where the Waters Met: A Story of Friendship, Brotherhood, and Service ...........................................................................................21 Robert Mays 6 Freedom of Forgiveness ......................................................................25 Zaccheus L. Moss 7 I Might Cry, But I’ll Get There ...........................................................29 MarQo D. Patton v vi Contents 8 Personal Agency: An Under-Discussed Factor for Successful Life Outcomes of Black Males ............................................................35 Michael T. Owens 9 Still Standing: Bumps in the Road Along a Path to Greater Success ...............................................................................41 Jason Rivera 10 Poverty and Education ........................................................................47 C. Sheldon Woods 11 The Destruction of Drugs ...................................................................53 Joel Bratton Jr. SECTION II INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY 12 From Unseen to Seen: The Power of Significant Others ..................59 Derrick Robinson 13 One Hundred Percent Intelligent Black Child: Black and Exceptional in Mathematics ...............................................................65 Nickolaus A. Ortiz 14 Of Pain and Peach Fuzz: A Chief Equity Officer Rants ....................69 John D. Marshall 15 Thank You So Much for Asking..........................................................75 Darreon D. Greer Sr. 16 Things Fall Apart to Fall in Place .......................................................79 Jajuan S. Johnson 17 The Menace of Immigrants: Reflections of Growing Up in Organisms Against My Development ......................................83 Oscar Espinoza-Parra 18 Be Yourself and the World Will Adjust ..............................................89 Tyrone C. Hamler 19 Memoir of a Former Impostor ............................................................93 C. Emmanuel Little Contents vii SECTION III RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 20 What Was Intended for My Harm, God Intended for My Good: A Black Male Overcoming the Odds ...................................................101 Lucian Yates III 21 Coming Home: The Social and Educational Consequences of Being a Formerly Incarcerated Chicano Convict Criminologist ..................................................................................109 Oscar Fabian Soto 22 When I Woke Up to Being Black ......................................................115 Christopher J. P. Sewell 23 The Power of Forgiveness ...................................................................119 Joseph Matthews 24 Stony the Road We Trod: Black Males Share Lived Experiences With Police Brutality .............................................................................123 Antonio Ellis and Eddie Vanderhorst 25 The Race ............................................................................................129 Dwight Gordon II 26 A Black Man’s Story of Empowerment: Why I Stopped Begging Whites to Accept My Blackness ............................................................133 Raymond Adams 27 The Emanuel Church Massacre and the School Across the Street: A Black Man’s Narrative of Two Racialized Conflicts .......................................................................139 Nathaniel Bryan 28 From Hopelessness to the Hallways of Higher Education .............145 Lawrence Scott 29 To Leave or Not to Leave: That Was My Contemplation ................149 Jamel Miller viii Contents SECTION IV OVERCOMING NARRATIVE OF FAILURE 30 Becoming the Victor .........................................................................157 Victor L. Powell 31 Overcoming the Obstacles and Breaking the Barriers ...................163 Jeremiah N. Taylor 32 Man Enough to Ask for Help: Overcoming a Learning Disability and Family Issues ..............................................................169 David C. Hughes 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 ...............................................................173 Brandon C. S. Wallace 34 Special Education to Higher Education: Speech Impediment to a Degree in Speech Communications ............................................179 Burgess Mitchell 35 From a Refugee Child to Success in America .................................185 Alex Sekwat 36 I Am Not Supposed to Be Here: Why Numbers Sometimes Lie.......189 Stuart Rhoden 37 Social Capital and Its Impact on My Personal and Academic Success .......................................................................195 Solomon Tention 38 Nobody Told Me the Road Would Be Easy ......................................203 Dante Pelzer 39 I’m Not My Chair ...............................................................................207 Michael S. Washington 40 On Stuttering and Speech Impediments: Stepping Stones Not Speed Bumps .....................................................................................211 Charles A. Barrett 41 Keeping My Head Above Water in a River of Whiteness ................219 LaMarcus J. Hall Contents ix 42 Rising Above a Tracked System ........................................................225 Brian K. Williams 43 Even Today I Remember the Pain ....................................................231 Gregory Washington 44 The Test of a Man ..............................................................................237 Verontae Deams 45 Rising Through the Concrete Like a Rose ......................................241 Nathan Stephens 46 Akoben: The Ancestors’ Call ............................................................245 Mwalimu Donkor Issa Minors SECTION V SEXUAL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE 47 Forged by My Foundation .................................................................253 Michael A. Robinson 48 Alone Was My Safe Place...................................................................261 Raphael Crawford 49 Won’t He Do It . . . : From Challenges to Triumphs .........................265 Derek Irvin 50 From Victim to Victor: “I Don’t Want to Play!” ...............................269 Robert A. Massey 51 Learning to Overcome Excessive Drinking .....................................273 Charles Brown III SECTION VI EXPERIENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 52 How Spirit and Soul Led Me to a Life as a Psychological Scientist .....279 Brandon E. Gamble 53 Do Not Apply to College ...................................................................285 Eugene Pitchford III
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