Black Ice

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Description

In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, used to be transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, where she turned into a scholarship student in a “boot camp” for long run American leaders.  Like any good student, she used to be made up our minds to succeed.  But Cary used to be also made up our minds to succeed without selling out.  This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, wherein failing calculus and winning a student election may both be interpreted as betrayals of 1’s skin.  Black Ice could also be a universally recognizable document of a woman’s adolescence; it’s, as Houston Baker says, “a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober mirrored image, intellignet passion, and joyous love.”


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