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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School - Hardcover - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9781538753484
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Education, Social Science, Humor
- Publication Name
- Admissions : a Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Subject
- Women, Minority Studies, Topic / School & Education, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE "[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she -- or any Black student, or all Black students -- would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I've read."-- New York Times A Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com - Parade - Town & Country - Nylon - New York Post - Lit Hub - BookRiot - Electric Literature - Glamour - Marie Claire - Publishers Weekly - Bustle - Fodor's Travel - Business Insider - Pop Sugar - InsideHook - SheReads Early on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made--to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America's inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1538753480
ISBN-13
9781538753484
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050097265
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Admissions : a Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Women, Minority Studies, Topic / School & Education, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Education, Social Science, Humor
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2021-033014
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
La2317.J35a3 2022
Reviews
"What an extraordinary, razor-sharp book! Kendra James offers a gimlet-eyed insider's view of being an outsider, painting the complicated world of elite schooling with such vividness and dark humor. This is a crucial account for our moment--asking and answering the question of how power is held, shifted, and grasped after by even the youngest in our society. I raced through the pages of Admissions , hungry for James's voice and brilliant insights. The schooling she writes about may have been exclusive, but this book will electrify every reader."-- R. Eric Thomas, bestselling author Here For It, "Admissions is an open and honest social critique of race in the US, as well as the coming-of-age story of a Black girl who is getting an education in a predominantly white boarding school."-- Book Reporter, "Frank and devastating in its candor, as well as incisive in its critique of elite academia, Admissions is a poignant coming-of-age memoir."-- Esquire.com
Dewey Decimal
371.02092
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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