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A hope in the unseen an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
Suskind based this book on his articles about Cedric Jennings, a black youth struggling to survive one of D.C.'s toughest school districts. It offers a view of life through the eyes of someone trying desperately to make his way up from the bottom.
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- "Suskind based this book on his articles about Cedric Jennings, a black youth struggling to survive one of D.C.'s toughest school districts. It offers a view of life through the eyes of someone trying desperately to make his way up from the bottom."
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- "At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C., honor students have learned to keep their heads down. Like most inner-city kids, they know that any special attention in a place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric Jennings will not swallow his pride, and with unwavering support from his mother, he studies and strives as if his life depends on it - and it does. The summer after his junior year, at a program for minorities at MIT, he gets a fleeting glimpse of life outside, a glimpse that turns into a face-on challenge one year later: acceptance into Brown University, an Ivy League school.... Cedric had hoped that at college he would finally find a place to fit in, but he discovers he has little in common with either the white students, many of whom come from privileged backgrounds, or the middle-class blacks. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric is left to rely on his faith, his intelligence, and his determination to keep alive his hope in the unseen - a future of acceptance and reward that he struggles each day to envision. -Back cover."
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