Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago

American Promise is an intimate and provocative account, recorded over 12 years, of the experiences of two middle-class African-American boys who entered a very prestigious - and historically white - private school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The boys’ parents found themselves struggling not only with kids' typical growing pains and the kinds of racial issues one might expect, but also with surprising class, gender and generational gaps.

 

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