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Cover -- Series page -- Gumbo for the Soul -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- CHAPTER 2: At Risk. . . . And at Promise Too! -- CHAPTER 3: Pushing Past Trauma -- CHAPTER 4: At Your Best, You Are Love -- CHAPTER 5: Sweetest Candy-Education and the Love of Teachers! -- CHAPTER 6: The Seven-Mile Divide -- CHAPTER 7: Against the Grain -- CHAPTER 8: I Am a Composite of All My Experiences -- CHAPTER 9: Sancocho -- CHAPTER 10: From Homeless to Hopeful -- CHAPTER 11: Racism and Giftedness -- CHAPTER 12: Forging Ahead in the Midst of Challenges -- CHAPTER 13: I Needed My Mother and My Daughter Needs Me -- CHAPTER 14: Making Beauty from Ashes -- CHAPTER 15: Surviving, Thriving, and Rising Above -- CHAPTER 16: Forgiveness -- CHAPTER 17: Finding My Academic Self -- CHAPTER 18: Beyond Zip Codes and Genetic Codes -- CHAPTER 19: Despite the Score -- CHAPTER 20: Free to Fly -- CHAPTER 21: "Can't" is a Four-Letter Word and Life Rolls Along -- CHAPTER 22: I Read to Live -- CHAPTER 23: The Day I Found Pain -- CHAPTER 24: The Difference between Giving Up and Moving On -- CHAPTER 25: Never Put Rocks on an Eagle's Back -- CHAPTER 26: Bendable, Yet Unbreakable -- CHAPTER 27: Being Called a Nigger -- CHAPTER 28: Like a Leaf in the Wind -- CHAPTER 29: To Thine Own Self Be True -- CHAPTER 30: Fighting the Good Fight as an Afr-Rican Leader -- CHAPTER 31: People Come into Our Lives for a Season -- CHAPTER 32: From "Smarty Pants" to Scholar -- CHAPTER 33: From Heartache to Head Up -- CHAPTER 34: Passion and Purpose through Pain and Dysfunction -- CHAPTER 35: My Life Began to Bloom at Forty -- CHAPTER 36: The Perils of Being Too Young to be Grown -- CHAPTER 37: Push Back and Stay in the Game -- CHAPTER 38: Learning to Love Myself after Sexual Abuse -- CHAPTER 39: I'm Not an "Oreo." I'm Focused!.

Why a book about gifted and talented black boys and literature? : the authors share their stories -- The more we know, the less we make up about black boys -- Mirror books versus window books : reflection matters -- Banks' multicultural curriculum model and Bloom's taxonomy -- Ford's Bloom-Banks matrix : an overview -- Authentic children's books promote identity and agency -- Applying the Ford Bloom-Banks matrix : books with black boys as the protagonist.