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Black Ice

By Lorene Cary

Black Ice Social Sciences

Black Ice

By Lorene Cary

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In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin. Black Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as Houston Baker says, "a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober reflection, intellignet passion, and joyous love."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
1992-02-04
Publication Date:
1992-02-04
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679737456
ISBN13:
9780679737452
Weight:
194 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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