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Original Title:	A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
ISBN:	0767901266 (ISBN13: 9780767901260)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Rhode Island(United States)

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Ron Suskind

Paperback | Pages: 373 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 4006 Users | 437 Reviews

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It is 1993, and Cedric Jennings is a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boast an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric has almost no friends. He eats lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he has asked for, knowing that he’s really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition–which is fully supported by his forceful mother–is to attend a top-flight college.

In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realizes that ambition when he begins as a freshman at Brown University. In this updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and now tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work.

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Title	:	A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Author	:	Ron Suskind
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 373 pages
Published	:	May 4th 1999 by Broadway Books (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Education. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Race. Cultural. African American. Sociology

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Very well written account of a gifted black student from D.C. The obstacles Cedric Jennings encounters as he struggles through probably one of the worst, most dangerous, crime ridden high schools are seemingly insurmountable. And the difficulties continue as he continues his education at Brown. Very informative and eye opening. Every white person needs to read a book like this.

I enjoyed this book simply because it spoke of many of the experiences I had with my students or that my students did have in Philadelphia. I think it provides a small window into an urban students struggles. The book also opened a window into what college might be like for some of those students I had.

I recently reread this excellent book. It offers a first person account of a young man's path from a broken inner city school to the ivy league. Well worth a read for anyone interested in issues of diversity and education.

To be blunt, this book is racist and judgmental. All of its high-and-mighty proclamations about how having ethnic student groups on campus is some kind of separatist compromise? The judgmental attitude towards young people of color wearing brand name clothing? The idea that an older white guy can accurately write a young black mans story? The idealization of an Ivy League education? The proclamation claiming that things shouldn't be so much about race, then the obsessive racialization of

It's almost hard to believe that Suskind tailed this student for four years and still had time to eat, sleep and keep a job. I was actually incredibly skeptical, given the level of omniscience in the narrative, but I felt a lot better after I read the book's acknowledgments.Even so, to write this book, the vast majority of scenes had to be reconstructed. I remain a bit skeptical because people invariably act for the camera, if not the reporter, and embellish when they recount any formative or



Very well written, with remarkably (still) new insights about race, class, and education. I was surprised and pleased to find this book so compelling.