A Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Suskind, Ron
A Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League Ron Suskind. - Rev. and updated ed. - New York : Broadway Books, [2005] - 390 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
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.
0767901266 (pbk.) 9780767901260 (pbk.)
2010291303
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
African American teenage boys--Education--Washington (D.C.)
African American college students--Biography
LC2803.W3 / S87 2005
371.8092
A Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League Ron Suskind. - Rev. and updated ed. - New York : Broadway Books, [2005] - 390 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
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.
0767901266 (pbk.) 9780767901260 (pbk.)
2010291303
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
African American teenage boys--Education--Washington (D.C.)
African American college students--Biography
LC2803.W3 / S87 2005
371.8092