This book for, about, and by Males of Color, amplifies triumphs and successes while documenting trials and tribulations that are instructive, inspiring, and praiseworthy. This book will be a must-read for every Male of Color.

* Employs portraiture methodology in a novel context to capture the voices of Black boys and their teachers * Gives voice to an overlooked population of students and teachers, elementary Black students, and Black male early childhood educators * Extends existing scholarship towards a new understanding of how we view and perceive Black male teachers

* Employs portraiture methodology in a novel context to capture the voices of Black boys and their teachers * Gives voice to an overlooked population of students and teachers, elementary Black students, and Black male early childhood educators * Extends existing scholarship towards a new understanding of how we view and perceive Black male teachers

Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs-tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their cultural backgrounds. For them, culture matters. This book offers an opportunity for an anti-deficit and positive examination of (Black, Latinx, and multiracial) culture and its role in creating educational efficacy among academics of color. Through personal narrative, educational and learning theory, creative writing/poetry, this hybrid text examines the cultural path to the doctorate. Transformative practice should be guided by an understanding of how an appreciation of a faculty member's cultural, life, and social experiences can be used to establish a healthy environment that will better appreciate, engage, and retain faculty of color. Along these lines, this text also considers how cultural, life and social experiences translate into pedagogy, mentorship and value as faculty of color.

This book for, about, and by Males of Color, amplifies triumphs and successes while documenting trials and tribulations that are instructive, inspiring, and praiseworthy. This book will be a must-read for every Male of Color.