No Ivy League
Oni Press · Paperback · August 20, 2019
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- Who it’s for
- A summer job opens a frank memoir about privilege, racial insularity, and Portland’s segregation history.
- Themes
- White privilege, Class insularity, Portland segregation
- Pacing
- Reflective
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"No Ivy League gracefully delivers a messy truth behind the essential process of questioning and reckoning." — Nate Powell, artist of the March trilogy When 17-year-old Hazel takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in Portland, Oregon, the only plan is to earn some extra cash to put toward concert tickets.
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Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds that working side by side with at-risk teens leaves no room for comforting illusions of equality and understanding. This uncomfortable and compelling memoir is an important story of a teen’s awakening to the racial insularity of the upper class, the power of white privilege, and the hidden history of segregation in Portland.
A Summer Reckoning
A summer job opens a frank memoir about privilege, racial insularity, and Portland’s segregation history.
Come here for
- A teenager’s reckoning with white privilege and sheltered assumptions
- Portland’s less-comfortable history of segregation
Expect
- An uncomfortable memoir that questions easy claims of equality
- Personal reflection shaped by work alongside at-risk teens
Where it sits
| Graphic Social Topics | 78% |
|---|---|
| LGBTQ+ for Teens | 76% |
| Graphic Biography | 66% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Graphic Biography
- Graphic Social Topics
- LGBTQ+ for Teens
- Authors
- Hazel Newlevant
- Publisher
- Oni Press
- Published
- August 20, 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- White privilege · Class insularity · Portland segregation
- Reading lane
- Graphic Biography