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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101524742449

ISBN-139781524742447

eBay Product ID (ePID)240155253

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Book TitleUncensored : My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicCommunication Studies, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Poverty & Homelessness, Social Activists, Interpersonal Relations, Sociology / Urban

GenreSocial Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology

AuthorZachary R. Wood

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-046457

Dewey Edition23

Reviews" Uncensored is inspired. Zachary Wood is an American hero for standing up on the front line of the fight for free speech on college campuses. This young, black man who has overcome so much in his life, tells an incredible story of crossing political lines in search of honest debate." --Juan Williams, author of We the People "It is difficult to know what is more amazing, the fact that a 21-year-old is publishing a memoir of his life, the fact that he indeed has a life and a complicated one to narrate, the fact that out of hardscrabble beginnings he has fashioned a present full of accomplishment and promises a future that the reader soon comes to believe in. He thinks he will be president of the United States. I wouldn't bet against him." --Stanley Fish, New York Times bestselling author of How to Write a Sentence

Dewey Decimal920.0092/96073 B

SynopsisDrawing upon his own powerful personal story, Zachary Wood shares his perspective on free speech, race, and dissenting opinions--in a world that sorely needs to learn to listen. As the former president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at his alma mater, Williams College, Zachary Wood knows from experience about intellectual controversy. At school and beyond, there's no one Zach refuses to engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs--sometimes vehemently so--and this view has given him a unique platform in the media. But Zach has never shared the details of his own personal story. In Uncensored , he reveals for the first time how he grew up poor and black in Washington, DC, where the only way to survive was resisting the urge to write people off because of their backgrounds and perspectives. By sharing his troubled upbringing--from a difficult early childhood to the struggles of code-switching between his home and his elite private school--Zach makes a compelling argument for a new way of interacting with others and presents a new outlook on society's most difficult conversations.

LC Classification NumberCT275.W663A3 2018