Research Catalog

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Description

1. 390 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Jennings, Cedric Lavar > Childhood and youth
2. Jennings, Cedric Lavar > Knowledge and learning
3. Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.) > Students > Biography
4. Brown University > Students > Biography
5. African American teenage boys > Education > Washington (D.C.)
6. African American college students > Biography
7. African American college students
8. African American teenage boys > Education
9. Learning and scholarship
10. Students
11. Washington (D.C.)

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library