"Spielberg and Vaughans bring brilliant social science analytics and compassionate pragmatic thought to bear upon one of our most troublesome problems in education and they demonstrate both the promise and limitations of rationale thought when superimposed on the immorality of racial and economic subjugation. Thinking within these constraints, Spielberg and Vaughans present a cogent program, informed by research, for intervening in the lives of a marginalized and oppressed group of young men. It is well that he includes, as do I, rational defiance of racist oppression. For young men fortunate enough to experience what is prescribed; an easier life is promised."

Edmund W. Gordon

John Musser Professor of Psychology, Yale University

Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia University

"Spielberg and Vaughans bring brilliant social science analytics and compassionate pragmatic thought to bear upon one of our most troublesome problems in education and they demonstrate both the promise and limitations of rationale thought when superimposed on the immorality of racial and economic subjugation. Thinking within these constraints, Spielberg and Vaughans present a cogent program, informed by research, for intervening in the lives of a marginalized and oppressed group of young men. It is well that he includes, as do I, rational defiance of racist oppression. For young men fortunate enough to experience what is prescribed; an easier life is promised."

Edmund W. Gordon

John Musser Professor of Psychology, Yale University

Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia University