A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

✍ Scribed by Ron Suskind

Publisher: Broadway Books
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Something to push against -- Don't let them hurt your children -- Rise and shine -- Skin deep -- To him who endureth -- The pretender -- Good-bye to yesterday -- Fierce intimacies -- Bill payers on parade -- A bursting heart -- Back home -- Let the colors run -- A place up ahead -- Meeting the man.;Follows gifted African-American student Cedric Jennings from his crime-infested high school in Washington D.C. to his junior year at Brown University, discussing the problems he encountered along the road out of the ghetto.

✦ Table of Contents

✦ Subjects

African American college students;African American teenage boys--Education;African American teenage boys--Education--Washington (D.C.);Learning and scholarship;Students;Biography;Electronic books;Biographies;Ebooks;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;Jennings, Cedric Lavar;Brown University;Frank W. Ballou Senior High S

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