A Hope in the Unseen
An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
New York : Broadway Books, [2005]
Format: Book
Edition: Revised and updated edition.
Description: 390 pages ; 21 cm
At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C., honor students have learned to keep their heads down. Like most inner-city kids, they know that any special attention in a place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric Jennings will not swallow his pride, and with unwavering support from his mother, he studies and strives as if his life depends on it--and it does. The summer after his junior year, at a program for minorities at MIT, he gets a fleeting glimpse of life outside, a glimpse that turns into a face-on challenge one year later: acceptance into Brown University, an Ivy League school. At Brown, finding himself far behind most of the other freshmen, Cedric must manage a bewildering array of intellectual and social challenges. Cedric had hoped that at college he would finally find a place to fit in, but he discovers he has little in common with either the white students, many of whom come from privileged backgrounds, or the middle-class blacks. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric is left to rely on his faith, his intelligence, and his determination to keep alive his hope in the unseen--a future of acceptance and reward that he struggles, each day, to envision.
Contents:
Something to push against -- Don't let them hurt your children -- Rise and shine -- Skin deep -- To him who endureth -- Pretender -- Good-bye to yesterday -- Fierce intimacies -- Bill payers on parade -- Bursting heart -- Back home -- Let the colors run -- Place up ahead -- Meeting the man.
Subjects:
Jennings, Cedric Lavar -- Childhood and youth.
Jennings, Cedric Lavar -- Knowledge and learning.
Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.) -- Students -- Biography.
Brown University -- Students -- Biography.
African American teenage boys -- Education -- Washington (D.C.)
African American college students -- Biography.
Jennings, Cedric Lavar -- Childhood and youth.
Jennings, Cedric Lavar -- Knowledge and learning.
Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.) -- Students -- Biography.
Brown University -- Students -- Biography.
African American teenage boys -- Education -- Washington (D.C.)
African American college students -- Biography.
ISBN:
0767901266 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Jennings, Cedric Lavar | Northeast Indoors | Biography | In |