Real role models [electronic resource] : successful African Americans beyond pop culture / Joah Spearman and Louis Harrison, Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spearman, Joah, 1983-
Other Authors: Harrison, Louis, 1955-
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
African Americans > Biography.
Role models > United States > Biography.
Successful people > United States > Biography.
African American professional employees > Biography.
African American leadership.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Real Role Models: Successful African Americans Beyond Pop Culture
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Why we need real role models
  • Defining a role model
  • They are more important than ever
  • Moms : our personal real role models
  • Rufus Cormier, JD
  • Melody Barnes
  • Eric Motley, PhD
  • James McIntyre
  • Tracie Hall
  • Civil rights and real role models
  • Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD
  • Timothy George, MD
  • Victoria Holloway Barbosa, MD
  • Bill Douglas
  • Leonard Pitts, Jr.
  • Danyel Smith
  • Are we really "keepin' it real"?
  • Ed Stewart
  • Lynn Tyson
  • Willie Miles, Jr.
  • Horace Allen
  • Deavra Daughtry
  • Je'Caryous Johnson
  • Do we really lack real role models?
  • Steve Jones
  • Isiah Warner, PhD
  • Gloria Ladson-Billings, PhD
  • Bernard Muir and Craig Littlepage
  • Beverly Kearney
  • Qualities of real role models
  • Self-esteem is not self-taught
  • Education : a real ticket to success
  • Being a real role model
  • Final thoughts.