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The Resource Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school, Kendra James

Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school, Kendra James

Label
Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
Title
Admissions
Title remainder
a memoir of surviving boarding school
Statement of responsibility
Kendra James
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her own elite educational experience, she quickly became disillusioned by America's inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, from clashes with her lily-white roommate, to unlearning the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. She contemplates the benefits of the education she got from Taft, which Kendra credits as playing a role in her career success, as well as the ways the school coddled her--perhaps, she now believes, too much. Through these stories, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness"--
Storyline
Writing style
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Provided by publisher
Biography type
autobiography
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11040409
Cataloging source
DLC
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James, Kendra
Dewey number
  • 370.92
  • B
Illustrations
maps
Index
no index present
LC call number
LA2317.J35
LC item number
A3 2022
Literary form
non fiction
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True
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  • James, Kendra
  • School administrators
  • Women school administrators
  • African American school administrators
  • Private schools
  • Minority students
  • Racism in education
  • Elite (Social sciences)
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
  • HUMOR / Topic / School & Education
  • African American school administrators
  • Elite (Social sciences)
  • Minority students
  • Private schools
  • Racism in education
  • School administrators
  • Women school administrators
  • United States
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a memoir of surviving boarding school
Label
Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school, Kendra James
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Publication
Copyright
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1250200913
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xiii, 283 pages
Isbn
9781538753484
Lccn
2021033014
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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(OCoLC)1250200913
Label
Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school, Kendra James
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1250200913
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xiii, 283 pages
Isbn
9781538753484
Lccn
2021033014
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
map
System control number
(OCoLC)1250200913

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