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College Boy

Omar Tyree

After hard-fought battles to include African Americans as qualified students within the white American educational system, the opportunity for higher learning still remains a struggle.This is Troy Potter's story. He is an African American young man from inner-city Philadelphia. He grew up with dreams of becoming a basketball player but now that he's eighteen he must learn the rules to a whole new game: college. How will Troy survive at a predominantly white school? Will he be afforded the same quality of education as his fellow students? How will he learn to become a successful black man in a white world? This penetrating novel takes a close look at the world of academia from a youthful African American perspective.

GenresAfrican American college studentsFictionYoung adult fiction

372 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 2002 by Pocket Books · ISBN 9780743482738

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2 editions

English

  • College Boy · Pocket Books · 2003 · ISBN 9780743482738 This page
  • College Boy · MARS Productions · 2002 · ISBN 9780971039728

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