A Hope in the Unseen
Subtitle: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Publisher: Broadway
Published: May 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780767901260
Subjects: Modern fiction; Specific Groups - General; Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.); Biography / Autobiography; Washington (D.C.); Social Science; Sociology - Urban; Sociology; People of Color; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Reading Group Guide; Biography; Students; Discrimination & Racism; Afro-American college students; Afro-American teenage boys; Education
First sentence: A hip-hop tune bursts forth from the six-foot-high amplifiers, prompting the shoulder-snug slopes of black teenagers to sway and pivot in their bleacher seats.