Black Ice Paperback - 1992
by Lorene Cary
In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious teenager from Philadelphia, went as a scholarship student to a formerly all-white, all-male (and still unapologetically elite) school in New Hampshire. She was determined to suceed--without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role.
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In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin. Black Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as Houston Baker says, "a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober reflection, intellignet passion, and joyous love."
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- Title Black Ice
- Author Lorene Cary
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-02-04
- ISBN 9780679737452 / 0679737456
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.22 x 0.58 in (20.37 x 13.26 x 1.47 cm)
- Reading level 880
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Cary, Lorene, African American women - New Hampshire -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91050489
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/1999, Page 251
- Publishers Weekly, 01/27/1992, Page 0
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