![]() ![]() ![]() As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made - to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. "harming and surprising…The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community…The best depiction of elite whiteness I've read." New York TimesĪ Most Anticipated Book by - Parade - Town & Country - Nylon -New York Post - Lit Hub - BookRiot - Electric Literature - Glamour - Marie Claire - Publishers Weekly - Bustle - Fodor's Travel - Business Insider - Pop Sugar - InsideHook - SheReadsĮarly on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. ![]()
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