"[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 TimesA 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 * SheReadsEarly 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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