Name: No Ivy League
ISBN: 9781549303050

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Why This Clicks

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

Book Details

Authors: Hazel Newlevant
Publisher: Oni Press
Published: August 20, 2019
Format: Paperback
Theme: Graphic Social Topics · Graphic Biography
Reading lane: Graphic Social Topics

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Publisher Categories

Graphic Biography
Graphic Social Topics
LGBTQ+ for Teens

About This Book

"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. 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 unders...

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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. 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.