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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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Access Delayed or Denied | |
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Educational Malpractice in Gifted and Fine Arts Programs | |
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Finally Gifted | |
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"I Keep On Knocking, But They Won't Let Me In": Personal and Professional Insights on Access to Advanced Programs | |
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Black Males Overcoming | |
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E-Motivating Malcolm: Academic Achievement via Electronic Media | |
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Segregated at the Gateway to Higher Education: Alex Before and After High School | |
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Ain't That Peculiar: Gifted, Black, and Male Overcoming the Fourth Grade Failure Syndrome | |
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From Nothing to Something | |
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Two Gifted African American Brothers Achieving in Spite of the Odds | |
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Resilient Black Females | |
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Age Ain't Nuthin' But a Number | |
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To Be Gifted, Black, and Pregnant in High School and College | |
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"Black and Ivy": Becoming the Model Minority | |
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Giftedness and Black Girlhood | |
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Negotiating Multiple Identities: Ability, Race, Class, and Place | |
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On Growing Up Black, Rural, and (Un)Gifted | |
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Finding My Identity in a Gifted Magnet Middle School | |
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Finding and Redefining Ghanaian Identity as a Gifted African in America | |
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Becoming Comfortable With Myself, by Myself | |
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Gifted Black Students in College | |
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"Being an Only": The Experiences of a Gifted African American Student in an Elite Scholarship Program | |
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Jumping Hurdles, Beating the Odds | |
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Gifted Black Male Athletes' Intercollegiate Experiences Negate the Dumb Black Jock Stereotype | |
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Village Perspectives on Gifted Black Children | |
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Knowing But Not Knowing: Living With a High-Ability Child | |
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The Power and Penalty of Ensuring Educational Access and Resources for One's Own Children: A Mad Mom's Memoir | |
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My Child Left Behind | |
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Knowledge Denied: An Information Divide | |
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Parenting Gifted Siblings | |
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She's Been Here Before | |
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Gifted Black Students' Perspectives on the Village | |
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Go 'Head Baby, Let the Lord Use You | |
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Knowing Everything But "One": A Narrative of an Academically Gifted African American Male | |
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Conversations With Dad | |
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Young, Gifted, and African American in Iowa | |
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Pathways Uplifting Giftedness in Blacks | |
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The Impact of a Single "Test": Thriving as a Black Gifted Female From a Single-Parent Family | |
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Put a Little Paint Where It Ain't: The Unwelcomed Infusion of Hip-Hop in Schools | |
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"Back in the Day, Man, I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me Like It Really Is": Liberatory Education for Gifted African Americans | |
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Afterword | |
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About the Editors | |
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About the Authors | |