6/27/2023 0 Comments Novel all the pretty horses![]() ![]() ![]() Among her barbs: “Taft never directly addressed the campus segregation… that was obvious to the rest of us.” … “Taft’s faculty and staff could be casually microaggressive or racist” … “There were no rules on campus that actively deterred racism.” … “There wasn’t even language directly addressing racism in our student handbook.” “This is a must-read for anyone who felt like their circle of friends was chosen for them or limited to one table in the cafeteria and for anyone who assumes the lives of privileged Black students are devoid of racism,” Library Journal wrote. “Admissions,” which The New York Times Book Review’s Lacy Crawford wrote was “the best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read” and Publisher’s Weekly called a “scintillating debut” and a “searing indictment of elite academia,” is a robust and painful read about a Black teenager of privilege who finds the emotional cost of a private school education too much to bear. ![]() ![]() That made her, she writes, “unseen” but “hypervisible,” a student shadowed by questions about how she got into Taft, and yet “always being pulled into admissions photos to present the appearance of diversity.” This is one of the first of a slew of microaggressions James said she endured at Taft, where she was the first Black American “legacy” (her father was a graduate) and one of only six other Black girls to graduate from there in 2006. ![]()
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