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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 | |