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Author James, Kendra, author.

Title Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school / Kendra James.

Publication Info. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022.
© 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  373.753 JAMES    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY JAMES    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. JAMES, K.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B JAMES, KENDRA    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B JAMES    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO JAMES    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY JAMES    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY JAMES, KENDRA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  373.222 JAM    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B JAMES, KENDRA    Check Shelf

Edition First Edition.
Description xiii, 283 pages : map ; 23 cm
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject School administrators -- United States -- Biography.
Women school administrators -- United States -- Biography.
African American school administrators.
Private schools -- Administration.
Minority students -- Recruiting.
Racism in education -- United States.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Education -- United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
HUMOR / Topic / School & Education.
African American school administrators. (OCoLC)fst00799345
Elite (Social sciences) -- Education. (OCoLC)fst00908117
Minority students -- Recruiting. (OCoLC)fst01023398
Private schools -- Administration. (OCoLC)fst01077567
Racism in education. (OCoLC)fst01737534
School administrators. (OCoLC)fst01106935
Women school administrators. (OCoLC)fst01178494
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781538753484 (hardcover)
1538753480 (hardcover)
9781538753491 (ebook)
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