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When Defeating the chances: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "an essential book" (Baltimore Sunlight) and "undoubtedly one of the main tools the African American parent can own" (Kweisi Mfume, Chief executive NAACP). Now, in response to tremendous demand, the authors turn their focus on African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in america. Many stay in single-parent households - either as the single-parent mother or as the little girl. Many face severe monetary hurdles. Yet despite these hurdles, some are carrying out at exceptional levels academically. Predicated on interviews with several successful young women and their own families, Overcoming the Chances offers a riches of information about how exactly and why they may have been successful - what motivates them, how their backgrounds and family interactions have designed them, even how it feels to be a high academic achiever. In addition they discuss the difficulties of getting into African American womanhood, from keeping self-esteem to making the right options about their professional and personal lives. Most significant, the book offers specific and motivating examples of the practices, behaviour, and parenting strategies which have enabled these women to persevere and triumph. For parents, educators, policy makers, and even all those worried about the training of young African American women, Overcoming the Chances is an very helpful guidebook on creating the conditions that lead to academic - and lifelong - success.
