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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Cedric Lavar Jennings; Cedric Lavar Jennings |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ron Suskind |
| ISBN: | 0767901266 : 9780767901260 |
| OCLC Number: | 41553218 |
| Description: | 373 p. ; 21 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Ron Suskind. |
Abstract:
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.
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- Jennings, Cedric Lavar -- Childhood and youth.
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- Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.) -- Students -- Biography.
- Brown University -- Students -- Biography.
- African American college students -- Biography.
