![]() ![]() Where two students of color were expelled for copying from each other, a White male student who had plagiarized work was punished by being sent to the school’s Learning Center. The author also observed unequal treatment of her peers. During her first year, a White student not only accused an innocent James of stealing $20 from her room, but also threatened to call her uncle, who was a police officer. ![]() The beautiful campus seemed to promise madcap Harry Potter–style adventures, but James soon realized that the majority-White school was really a “swamp of microaggressions” that threatened to engulf her at every turn. ![]() When James enrolled at the prestigious Taft School, she had no idea that, as Taft’s first “Black American legacy student to graduate since 1891,” she would become the school’s poster child for diversity. A founding editor of recounts her experiences as a student at an elite boarding school and, later, as an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment. ![]()
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