Black Ice

In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin. Black Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as Houston Baker says, "a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober reflection, intellignet passion, and joyous love."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/04/1992
ISBN: 9780679737452
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.58d

Review Citations: Booklist 09/15/1999 pg. 251
Publishers Weekly 01/27/1992

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 59974 / Black Ice
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12