Pedro Noguera
Those who are looking for practical and insightful strategies for mentoring young men of color will find this book an invaluable and powerful resource.
Gregory Michie
Horace Hall is that all-too-rare academic writer: someone who not only can talk the talk, but has walked the walk as well. His personal experiences as a mentor to African American and Latino young men illuminate this wise and important book, which combines a damning critique of society’s vilification of males of color with a thoughtful, practical re-imagining of traditional notions of youth mentoring.
William C. Ayers
Horace Hall is an engaged young teacher/scholar who writes with clarity and authority about his journey toward redemption for both himself and for the young men of color whose lives he touches. This book is a personal odyssey, a practical guide to a positive approach to teaching young men of color, and a plea to America to wake up. Hall reminds us that we are one another’s business; we are each other’s bond and hope. The water is rising, but there is still time to reach out our hands, and, he argues, we must.
Jawanza Kunjufu
Horace Hall brings to light in Mentoring Young Men of Color that our boys need mentoring, nurturance, love, and direction not suspension, expulsion, zero tolerance, and prison. I strongly suggest you read this important book.