TY - BOOK AU - Davis,Joy Lawson AU - Douglas,Deb TI - Empowering underrepresented gifted students: perspectives from the field SN - 9781631984884 PY - 2021///] CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Free Spirit Publishing Inc. KW - Gifted children KW - Education KW - Gifted teenagers KW - Social advocacy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword --; Introduction; Joy Lawson Davis --; Student voices: the power of self-advocacy; Vinay Konuru --; Self-advocacy: an essential tool for breaking through barriers; Deb Douglas --; I got this: helping gifted black students advocate for themselves in the face of educational injustices; Donna Y. Ford, Gilman W. Whiting, Edward C. Fletcher Jr., James L. Moore III, and Brian L. Wright --; Leading gifted Hispanic learners toward self-advocacy; Dina Brulles --; Emerging from the shadows: self-advocacy of gifted American Indian and Alaska Native learners; Marcia Gentry and Anne Gray --; Opening the doors for gifted English language learners through self-advocacy; Jaime Castellano, with Robert Robertson --; Empowering gifted students from low-income households; Tamra Stambaugh and Timothy W. Stambaugh --; Moving beyond disabilities: twice-exceptional students and self-advocacy; Megan Foley-Nicpon and Charles D. Cederberg --; Rainbow dreams: empowering gifted LGBTQ+ students to self-advocate; Alena R. Treat and Robert W. Seney --; Power advocates: families of diverse gifted learners taking a seat at the table; Joy Lawson Davis, Shauna Mayo, and Erinn Fears Floyd --; Conclusion; Deb Douglas N2 - "A compendium of stories from contributing authors that details the barriers to self-advocacy faced by special populations of gifted students and recommends strategies for helping those students overcome the barriers. Each chapter, authored by a different author, focuses on a particular group of underserved students, with additional chapters about self-advocacy"-- ER -