Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America's inequitable system.
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. "harming and surprising…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…The best depiction of elite whiteness I've read." New York TimesĪ Most Anticipated Book by - Parade - Town & Country - Nylon -New York Post - Lit Hub - BookRiot - Electric Literature - Glamour - Marie Claire - Publishers Weekly - Bustle - Fodor's Travel - Business Insider - Pop Sugar - InsideHook - SheReadsĮarly on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie.
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