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Casey Gerald chronicles a life that moves between worlds—starting on New Year’s Eve 1999 at his grandfather’s black evangelical church in Dallas, through the hardship of a missing mother and the limited income of disability checks, to the unexpected opportunity to play football at Yale.
At Yale, Gerald discovers the hidden corridors of elite society and the doors that open to success on Wall Street and Washington, yet he observes how those at society’s margins are consistently suppressed.
Through a stark personal lens, he exposes how the powerful propagate redemption narratives that keep the disadvantaged stagnant, and how the author’s own ascent is intertwined with the very structures that perpetuate inequality.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Casey Gerald
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