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Author: Joe Miller
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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The debate team at Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri competes with elite suburban and private schools and winning against all odds. This is their journey in triumphant 2002.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joe Miller
ISBN: 9780374131944 0374131945
OCLC Number: 62090813
Description: xv, 480 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: First day --
Academically deficient --
Ebony rose --
Antoine Lewis --
Across the divide --
New leaders rising --
Brandon dial --
Marcus Leach --
Debate Criminals --
Fast times on the national circuit --
The high fashion of murder and oppression --
Run for the TOC, take 1 --
Wrong life --
Jane Rinehart --
Black boys and girls --
Run for the TOC, take 2 --
Little girls cry --
All deliberate speed --
Debate hell --
Prodigal mom --
Southern pride --
Trickle down --
Specific intellectuals --
Run for the TOC, take 3 --
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck --
Comfort zone --
Central high prison --
Sion girl --
Political capital --
Mack daddy --
A future --
The goal of life --
The powerless --
Ebony moment --
Whole new game --
Geechy Negro --
Critique of imperialism --
Co-opted --
A last attempt to save the season --
High and low in Nebraska --
All's right --
Mean green --
Groundswell of support --
Home, bitter home --
Commencements --
Show me --
The reverend Jesse Jackson and the unfortunate survival of humanity --
Topicality --
A shooting --
Pedagogy of the oppressed --
All the world in a ghetto --
Breakdown --
Passionate determination --
Conflict and conquest --
The agony of reform --
A change in consciousness --
Down with the revolution --
Reframing the debate.
Responsibility: Joe Miller.
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The debate team at Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri competes with elite suburban and private schools and winning against all odds. This is their journey in triumphant 2002.

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