Product Description:  This book discusses current research on identity formation, family and peer influences, risk and resilience factors, and concepts of masculinity and sexuality in African American boys. Sorting out genuine findings from popular misconceptions and misleading headlines, this concise and wide-ranging reference covers the crucial adolescent years, ages 11-16, acknowledging diversity of background and experience in the group, and differences and similarities with African American girls as well as with other boys...read more

Book by Lee, Courtland C.

Product Description: What's in Your Future? Do you have a dream? Do you have a plan for reaching your goals? Do you think of the future in terms of what you will have instead of the kind of person you will be? Are you building relationships with your peers and with adults that will help you reach your goals? Or are you getting sidetracked by things that seem pleasurable and fun right now (goofing off in school, drinking, doing drugs, having sex) but that may hurt your chances of succeeding in the future? As a teen, it's time to start thinking about your life's goals and what you need to do to reach them...read more

A groundbreaking approach to parenting young African American males uses a model perfected by the Poro culture of West Africa to provide young men with an appropriate rite of passage and a sense of becoming 'warriors' in the world. Reprint.