Dec 24, 2009

Black Ice | Black Ice

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Author: Lorene Cary
First Published: 1991
Type of Work: Autobiography
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
Subjects: African Americans, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Adolescence, Gender roles, Class consciousness, Schools or school life, 1980’s, New England, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
Locales: Concord, NH, Philadelphia, PA

BLACK ICE provides glimpses into the mind and life of a young girl attending a prestigious prep school in New England. In 1971, Lorene Cary, an academically gifted African American teenager from Philadelphia, is invited to attend St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire. Cary looks forward to the educational challenge and is excited to learn about upper-class and New England living, money, power, and the handsome Mike Russell, a St. Paul’s senior who helps recruit new African American students.

Cary unravels and compares her childhood experiences to her adolescent ones at St....

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Black Ice | Black Ice

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