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050 00 $aLC2803.W3$bS87 2005
100 1 $aSuskind, Ron.
245 12 $aA hope in the unseen :$ban American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League /$cRon Suskind.
250 $aRev. and updated ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBroadway Books,$cc2005.
300 $a390 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $aAt 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.
505 0 $aSomething to push against -- Don't let them hurt your children -- Rise and shine -- Skin deep -- To him who endureth -- Pretender -- Good-bye to yesterday -- Fierce intimacies -- Bill payers on parade -- Bursting heart -- Back home -- Let the colors run -- Place up ahead -- Meeting the man.
600 10 $aJennings, Cedric Lavar$xChildhood and youth.
600 10 $aJennings, Cedric Lavar$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aAfrican American teenage boys$xEducation$zWashington (D.C.)
610 20 $aFrank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.)$xStudents$vBiography.
610 20 $aBrown University$xStudents$vBiography.
650 0 $aAfrican American college students$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/97052700.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random041/97052700.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random043/97052700.html