Given the continued plight of men of color in college after a decade of ineffective interventions focused more on -fixing the student- than on addressing the social, structural and institutional forces that undermine his academic achievement, this book is intended as a catalyst to change the direction of the dialogue, by providing a new theoretical framework and strength-based models for developing strategies for success.

This book brings together five of today's leading scholars concerned with the condition of males of color in higher education - LeManuel Bitsoi, Edmund T. Gordon,...