School Clothes Format:Hardcover they bring that energy to

they bring that energy to their own friendship—its joys and its pitfalls

self-education

and enjoy endless entitlement

WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize

Adenike Oladosu

School Clothes Format:Hardcover they bring that energy toA chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US educationone where racial barriers and violence are confronted by freedom dreaming and resistanceBlack students were forced to live and learn on the Black side of the color line for centuries, through the time of slavery, Emancipation, and the Jim Crow era. And for just as longeven through to todayBlack students have been seen as a problem and a seemingly troubled population in Americas