Contents
Foreword?Josh Parker?vii
Acknowledgments?ix
1.??An Advanced Literacy and Knowledge Perspective?1
Early Wounded Years?4
High Text Volume?4
The Black Intellectual Tradition?6
Seven Pathways to Advanced Literacy and Intellectual Development for Black Boys?9
Black Male Erasure Is Given Birth in the Elementary Grades?10
Reading, Race, and Advanced Disciplinary Reading and Writing?13
Refusal to Authorize Texts and Topics for Black Boys?16
2.??Iconography of Darkness?18
Black Boys and Knowledge of Self?19
The Poverty Penalty?20
The Need for a Threefold Embrace?21
Rewarded and Suffocating Darkness?21
Suffering Neophytes?22
Darkness: The Progenitor to Suffering?23
Partial Faulting: Never Rise From the Bottom?24
School-Related Darkness?25
Stolen Legacy and Literacy?27
Excusatory Powers of Darkness?28
Home-Related Darkness?28
In Search of the Light?30
3.??A Multidimensional Reading Model?33
Interrogating Literacy Authorization?35
A Research-Based Multidimensional Literacy Model?36
Meaningful Exchanges With Texts?38
Guidelines for Text Selection?41
The Anatomy of the MDRM Lessons?44
MDRM and the Black Intellectual Tradition?51
Measuring Impact?57
Black Boys Deserve All Kinds of Texts?59
Literacy Sins of This Nation?63
4.??Social and Scientific Literacy Authorizations?68
Building Relationships With the Disciplines?68
The MDRM Model Lesson?72
Focus on the Universe, Society, and the Body?77
Interdisciplinary Probing: Black Boys and Consciousness?82
Sample Texts and Lessons From the Interdisciplinary Probing?89
Fourth-Grade Boys? Writing Artifacts?99
Exalting Advanced Reading Through Literacy Authorizations?103
Sample Literacy Improvement Plan?104
5.??Black Boys and Writing: The True Intellectual Exercise?109
Textual Literacy Frames?111
Sample Textual Literacy Frame?112
Writing Across Multiple Texts?113
Responsive Writing Instruction?116
Neither Innocent Nor Kind?125
The Souls of Black Boys?128
6.??Toward an Early Intellectual Infrastructure?129
Interdisciplinary Movement and Black Boys?132
Disciplinary Disconnect?136
Elementary-Aged Black Boys and Texts?138
Nurturing a Culture of Intellectual Collaboration?143
Harsh Schedule of Reading and Writing?144
Researching the Literacy Development of Black Boys in the Elementary Grades?147
Afterword?153 Cornelius Minor
References?155
Index?160
About the Author?166