They also discuss the challenges of moving into African American womanhood, from maintaining self-esteem to making the right choices about their professional and personal lives. Based on interviews with many of these successful young women and their families, Overcoming the Odds provides a wealth of information about how and why they have succeeded-what motivates them, how their backgrounds and family relationships have shaped them, even how it feels to be a high academic achiever. Yet despite these obstacles, some are performing at exceptional levels academically. Many live in single-parent households-either as the single-parent mother or as the daughter. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States. Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" ( Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP).
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