![]() In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft. Her new position forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become. A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School (9781538753507) by James, Kendra and a. ![]() As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made-to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. ![]() ![]() She Reads Early on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. Kendra James was Founding Editor at Shondaland, where she wrote and edited work for two years.The best depiction of elite whiteness I've read.-New York Times A Most Anticipated Book by The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. ![]() Shop Barnes & Noble Admissions - A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James online at. ![]()
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