Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life Paperback Author: Dr. Joe Brewster | Language: English | ISBN:
0812984897 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Fascinated with the idea of documenting the experience of minority students, including their own young son, at an exclusive private school, Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson began a film project. After a few years, they stopped when their son began to feel socially isolated and singled out for concerns about underperformance. Next, they embarked on an exploration of why their son and so many other black boys struggled in school. The result is a penetrating look at the standard practices, at school and at home, that contribute to the achievement gap between the races and the sexes that seems to put black boys at a disadvantage. They debunk myths and offer 10 parenting and education strategies to improve the prospects for black boys to help them overcome racial stereotypes and low expectations, from preconception and prenatal health care through preschool, from grades K–12 through life skills, including the Trayvon Martin lesson. This is a practical and insightful look at the particular challenges of raising black males. --Vanessa Bush
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“The authors offer a plethora of information and advice geared toward the specific developmental needs of black boys. . . . Thorough and detailed, this guidebook is also a call to action. As Brewster sees it, when people of color remain complacent, they not only break a tacit promise to future generations to achieve social equity, they also imperil the futures of both the nation and the planet. A practical and impassioned parenting guide.”
—Kirkus Reviews “A penetrating look at the standard practices, at school and at home, that contribute to the achievement gap between the races and the sexes that seems to put black boys at a disadvantage. [Brewster and Stephenson] debunk myths and offer ten parenting and education strategies to improve the prospects for black boys to help them overcome racial stereotypes and low expectations. . . . This is a practical and insightful look at the particular challenges of raising black males.”
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- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (January 14, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812984897
- ISBN-13: 978-0812984897
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
On February 3, 2014, most PBS stations will be showing "American Promise", the film made by Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, the authors of Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life, which was made from 13 years of filming their oldest son's education at Dalton school, a prestigious school in Manhattan. Idris, their son, started the school with his best friend Seun, but Seun would leave Dalton in high school and go to Benjamin Banneker Academy, where most students were black. What the film focuses on is how black boys are treated in school, how they learn, and why what goes on at school and at home is so important to their success in school and life.
This book does covers some of what went on at Dalton with the boys, but it's mostly a stand-alone manual on how to raise and educate a black son. It covers lots and lots of things, too--early home education, parenting styles, discipline, teaching time management and persistence, understanding special needs and learning styles, making sure the schools recognize a parent's presence, combating stereotype threats, talking about race issues, etc. If this all sounds too academic or dry to you, the book is no such thing. It's actually an extremely interesting book written for the general reading public, filled with all sorts of stories and statistics about black boys, and how what they face in life is often very different than what boys of other races face, and different than what black girls face. (No, the authors have no daughters, only two sons.
Please do not let the sub title of this book mislead you. This book is helpful to parents of other races and also helpful in raising girls. The emphases of this book is on young black boys but the subject matter is universal. Think of this book like a street named Martin Luther King, any person can drive on the street but the name emphasizes black leadership.
Here is the background behind the book. A black family (actually two different families) enroll their son into a predominately white private school. The child enters via a scholarship that the school provides to help diversify the school. The parents are so excited that they decide to video tape the kid's experiences throughout his years at the school. The parents have about 13 years of video showing the trials and tribulations that their son, Idris, goes through. Idris's mother is a lawyer and his father is a psychiatrist, both of Idris' parents went to well known colleges.
This book will provide parents with tools they can use to support their children in emotional and educational ways. An example of what you might see in the book is something like this, *a large percentage of black babies arrive preterm meaning they arrive before the brain, heart, lungs, and other organs are optimally developed*. Then the authors go on to explain what can be done to decrease the chances of having a preterm baby.
✔The chapters in this book are as follows:
Introduction
1. Close the Gap Before it Opens
2. Build Your Son's Brain
3. Be His First Teacher
4. Put His Armor On
5. Hug Him and Tell him you Love him
6. You Brought him into this world, don't let other folks take him out.
7. Protect him from time bandits
8. Education to match his needs
9.
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