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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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Knowledge and learning, Brown University, African American teenage boys, African American college students, Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.), Students, Education, Childhood and youth, Biography, African americans, biography, African american students, Washington (d.c.), biography, College students, Brown university, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Educators, EDUCATION, Administration, General, Organizations & Institutions, Learning and scholarshipPeople
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A hope in the unseen: an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
2005, Broadway Books
in English
- Rev. and updated ed.
0767901266 9780767901260
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