Kendra James

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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding SchoolPaperback, 24 January 2023

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
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Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Date Published
24 Jan 2023
ISBN-10
1538753502
ISBN-13
9781538753507

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Kendra James
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
24 January 2023
Dimensions:
20.07 x 12.95 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1538753502
ISBN-13:
9781538753507
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Weight:
181.44 gm

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