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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     James, Kendra.     Subjects     Taft School -- Social life and customs.     Private schools -- United States -- Administration.     Minority students -- Recruiting.     Racism in education -- United States.     School administrators, Black -- United States.     School administrators -- United States -- Biography.     Women school administrators -- United States -- Biography.     Women, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      James, Kendra.       by title:      Admissions : a memoi...       by call number:      370.92 J27a     Search the Web     James, Kendra.     Taft School -- Social life and customs.     Private schools -- United States -- Administration.     Minority students -- Recruiting.     Racism in education -- United States.     School administrators, Black -- United States.     School administrators -- United States -- Biography.     Women school administrators -- United States -- Biography.     Women, Black -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school / Kendra James. by James, Kendra. Grand Central Publishing, 2022. Call #: 370.92 J27a Subjects Taft School -- Social life and customs.   Private schools -- United States -- Administration.   Minority students -- Recruiting.   Racism in education -- United States.   School administrators, Black -- United States.   School administrators -- United States -- Biography.   Women school administrators -- United States -- Biography.   Women, Black -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781538753484 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xiii, 283 p. : map ; 24 cm. Summary:  "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."--Publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Dartmouth North Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 370.92 J27a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 370.92 J27a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Bedford Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 370.92 J27a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 370.92 J27a Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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