To Protect and Nurture: (Re)Imagining Mentoring for Black Boys in the Early Grades

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Nine
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Abstract

This paper examines a set of widely-cited principles to implement mentoring programs for African-American boys in the early grades (Pre-K-3), in order to assess in what ways, they either "protect" and "nurture" Black boys, or further "adutify" them within schools and communities. The goal is to explicate how a (re)imagining of Black boyhood can be taken-up with mentoring program for young African-American boys.

Authors

• Joseph Derrick Nelson, Swarthmore College
  Presenting Author

• Brian L. Wright, University of Memphis
  Presenting Author