1. Editorial

   • Courtland C. Lee

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4

2. The education of African American males: frameworks for developing authenticity

   • James M. Patton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 27

3. Coping: Stressors and depression among middle class african American men

   • Robert C. Evans
   • Helen L. Evans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 40

4. Back to the future

   • Paul Hill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 62

5. Economically disadvantaged African American fathers: Social policy and fathering

   • Michelle L. Kelley
   • Christopher B. Colburn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 74

6. Perspectives on the black male college student’s demise in the 1990s: Going, Going, … Gone?

   • Roosevelt Littleton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 82

7. “Othello” and race relations in elizabethan England

   • Rudolph A. Shaw

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 91

8. Understanding the bag the cat is in: Father and son in richard wright’s

   • Harry McKinley Williams

   OriginalPaper Pages: 92 - 98

9. Black manhood in Ernest J. Gaines’s

   • Charles E. Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 112