transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in

New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future

American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was

also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive

memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus

and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin. Black

Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as

Houston Baker says, "a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober reflection,

intellignet passion, and joyous love."

Black Ice Essay "The distance between where we were and the ideal k

the school and "turn it out" just as she had come to do. At other times she felt as though

change. She learned what it was like to be an outsider in your own family, and she learned

received an opportunity she didn't deserve. Fear lingering at all times, the fear of failure,

gave her the power and confidence that she could do most anything. Cary also learned

hard work and dedication. While at St. Paul's Cary also got an education in family

people of her time, only existed in their dreams. She felt as though this education would

"Grace" at St. Paul's. A quality she was not looking for, but found just the same. She

happen to them if they were to come together. The constant pulling, however, only

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Approximate Word count = 610
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)