This book won the 2007 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.
From -Nigger, Nigger, Black as Tar, Won't Go to Heaven in a Motor Car- to -They're Not Ready Yet, - this book breathes life into an often-abandoned, rural Black family story. This book illuminates a struggle and hope for education in Southern desegregated grade schools and illustrates school experiences from multiple generations within three Black families as it introduces Black family pedagogy -of roots and wings- - keys to survival and success at a crossroads of law, tradition, and transition. "Black Hands in the Biscuits Not in the Classrooms" is a must read for lifelong students of education, sociology, public policy, and history."