Publisher's Synopsis
A Jamaican-born scholar and educational activist and an American-born Caucasian scholar are the authors of this book. It is suitable as a trade, scholarly, text, or reference book for students, parents, policymakers, educators, political leaders, scholars, or other educational stakeholders who wish to improve America's educational system. Additionally, it is useful for future immigrants or for peace-loving people across the globe who wish to see America maintain its leading role as an arbiter of world peace. The book is fitting and timely in the era of the global upheaval, and national reckoning from the Coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter uprising. It informs that the long, festering sore of Black racial subjugation (e.g., miseducation, the war on drugs, the war against Black males, mass incarceration and the denied maternity of black women"), which became visible through the recent viral and repulsive police murder of Floyd George, is the root of the problem. The resulting turbulence underscores the pervasive issue of racism, police brutality, immigration stance, as well as the current political turmoil unfolding in America. This work highlights the utility of education as a solution to these problems, which must be addressed to circumvent the danger they portend for national security and the American way of life. Solutions for the wide-ranging historical, social, political, economic, cultural, personal, emigrational, and structural (discreet or overt) racialist factors that exclude a significant number of gifted and talented Black and Latinx children from New York Specialized High Schools, and the nation's gifted schools, are provided. Examples of how Latinxs from different geographical locations (e.g., Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico; Puerto Rico) should be disaggregated to explore their unique nature and educational needs, to avoid faulty generalization from their pigeonholing based on their common language, are presented.
