172 pages
244 x 170mm
ISBN: 978 1 85856 431 9
Due September 2008

This book is about Black male students in the UK and USA who have successfully accessed higher education both at new universities and at Oxford and Harvard. It sets out to establish the extent to which they have been exposed to the factors known to correlate with the underachievement of Black youths, and to identify the factors that have led to their educational success and influenced their access to and choice of universities.

There is a plethora of research focusing on the underachievement of black boys. But little attention has been given to their positive achievement, as is clear from the scant academic research on the subject undertaken, particularly in the UK.

Black Boys Can analyses the issues that surround their access to higher education. It unravels the factors that contributed to these young men’s success and examines the barriers they found in their path and how they overcame them.

Here is a book that can be used not only to inform policy but also as a practical tool for use by parents, teachers and Black boys themselves to help gain access to higher education.

Dr Cheron Byfield is co-founder, Chair and Chief Executive of the National Black Boys Can Association, UK