{"product_id":"first-acts-9781476688428","title":"First Acts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue  1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrive  5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnow  34\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePee  52\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReading Apprehension  68\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow I Danced  82\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire  99\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOf Crickets and Boys  108\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIroning  141\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeometry  150\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlux: An Afterword  167\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040506610007,"sku":"9781476688428","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476688428.jpg?v=1750946958","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/first-acts-9781476688428","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}