Black Ice (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorene Cary
- First Published: 1991
- 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
The Work
Black Ice, Lorene Cary’s autobiographical novel, chronicles her teen years during the 1970’s. At the age of fourteen, she was transplanted from her home in West Philadelphia into the white, male terrain of St. Paul’s, an exclusive boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire. Cary recalls her struggle and determination to succeed as an ambitious scholarship student under disquieting circumstances. The book records her efforts to secure and define her identity as a young black woman.
Cary’s resolve is born from a sense of duty to her family,...
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