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It is here where you'll find the patience necessary to communicate critically and constructively with difficult urban students, successfully. The following chapters are included:1. The I (the Author) Am Not Claiming to Be Perfect Disclaimer2. Rule #1: The only person whose behavior you can control is you.3. I know you can read, but are you emotionally illiterate? 4. Why do you care about these students? 5. How am I supposed to teach people who don't want to learn?6. Use your inner Hulk.7. Head like a brick? 8. Sometimes we just plant seeds.9. Never jeopardize the relationship.10. Know your emotional ledge. 11. Don't sweat all the small stuff at the same time; prioritize your criticism.12. Attack the issue, not the student. 13. Offer choices and consequences, not confrontation.14. To be or not to be (sarcastic, sometimes): The risk and reward of constructive sarcasm. 15. Laugh with your students, never at them.16. Be silent, at least momentarily. 17. Inferiority should not be normal(ized). 18. Are you listening (or just talking)?19. Are you unconsciously racist? 20. Why do we to teach the poor so poorly? 21. So, what exactly did you expect? 22. Show them you really care with conscientization. 23. But can they all be saved? 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Accordingly, if we are to ever end this underachievement, we must expose academic self-handicapping as arguably its primary catalyst, convince educators to problematize and stop tolerating academic self-handicapping from these students, and prepare our students to overcome their overreliance on academic self-handicapping. Doing anything else may simply be a waste of time or perhaps itself self-handicapping.Intergenerationally poor students (regardless of ethnicity) and Black students in America collectively tend to academically self-handicap significantly more than their more affluent or non-Black counterparts. This is largely because these students typically experience far more feelings of inadequacy (i.e., low self-worth, incompetence, powerlessness, and shame) and, consequently, develop a more profound fear (and anticipation) of failure generally and academically. 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