Admissions - A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School (Paperback)

"[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.

General

Imprint:	Grand Central Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2023
Authors:	Kendra James
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-5387-5350-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Secondary schools > Independent / public schools Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-5387-5350-2
Barcode:	9781538753507

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