Description
Book Synopsis Playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.C., during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. As a student at an all-Black elementary school, Kermit was selected for a newly formed honors track at a predominantly white secondary school. Traveling a complex path, Kermit tore down segregation barriers, balanced on an academic pedestal, and battled an internal war of denial against his same-sex attractions.
This memoir is not a story about a young man rising from the hood but rather a young Black man struggling with stereotypes, identity, and mild dyslexia while straddling two middle-class worlds, Black and white, and striving not to be everyone''s other.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments ix
- Prologue 1
- Drive 5
- Snow 34
- Pee 52
- Reading Apprehension 68
- How I Danced 82
- Fire 99
- Of Crickets and Boys 108
- Ironing 141
- Geometry 150
- Flux: An Afterword 167
