Bedford Public Library

Miseducated, a memoir, Brandon P. Fleming ; foreword by Dr. Cornel West

eng

autobiography

no index present

non fiction

Miseducated

Brandon P. Fleming ; foreword by Dr. Cornel West

a memoir

"Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom. When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared. Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar?to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Crucially, he found debate, which became the means by which he transformed his life and the tool he would use to transform the lives of others?teaching underserved kids to be intrusive in places that are not inclusive, eventually at Harvard University, where he would make champions and history."--Amazon.com