Surviving the Mourning

Abstract

Supporting our Black men and men of color attending American historically non-Black colleges and universities requires a good ole down south recipe filled with a variety of approaches, and empathy is only one of the necessary ingredients. This epistolary personal narrative autoethnography is self-focused, yet also tethered to the lived narratives of real Black men and men of color undergraduates and graduate students. Readers can use these weaved reflections to inform, challenge, and empower them to do the real homework of shaping best into better the homework that starts within.