White Bucks & Black-eyed Peas
Coming of Age Black in White America
Mabry, Marcus
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Born and raised in an all-black enclave in suburban New Jersey, Marcus Mabry suddenly found himself thrust into the white world at age 14 when he won an academic scholarship to one of the nations most prestigious prep schools. In examining the price of black success in America, Mabry recalls what it was like being young, black, and talented, searching for his own identity, as he teetered uncertainly between two universes: the despairing, impoverished tightly knit black community of his childhood and the white world of privilege and promise that beckoned.
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"Mabry takes us on his perilous ride from the bleakness of the impoverished black neighborhood outside Trenton that its residents mockingly called 'White City,' to the exclusive Lawrenceville School, to Stanford University to his present job as a Paris-based correspondent for Newsweek. He thanks 'Uncle Sam with his Aid to Families with Dependent Children...food stamps, Medicaid, Head Start, college grants and Perkins loans' for making him 'an exception' to bitter stereotypes about young black men. His vigorous account is the white-collar prose equivalent of rap." -The New York Times
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ISBN: 1594868204
ISBN(13-digit): 9781594868207
Dewey Decimal: 305.896/0730092
Library of Congress: 2007046240
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 284
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