Tashiro has written a number of academic nonfiction essays. He and his co-author David Kaufman Smith, an African American friend of over 60 years, have recently finished the research for a joint memoir—Working title: Confessions of Two Colored Boys Grown Old. Tashiro and Smith explore and contextualize the lived experience of their lives as minority boys growing into old men from 1948 into 2022. Colored Boys analyzes our sociocultural experiences as other within the interpretative framework of current advances in social psychology and neurobiology. As a starting point for writing Confessions, we have been writing essays that can be expanded into chapters.

The link below opens to a paper about ethical responsibilities for publishers development of and faculty members use of instructional materials to teach courses in the health sciences. This paper is part of a series focused on sometimes insidious but often overt discrimination in educational practices that impact students, parents, teachers, and communities. Tashiro and Smith used this and similar papers to provide an initial framework for chapters within Colored Boys.