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November 14
The Prep School Negro
A Film & Conversation by the Director Andre’ Robert Lee
He got … a full scholarship to attend a… prep school… and it was a way out of the ghetto…
but at what cost?
Monday November 14
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Yale Whitney Humanities Center
(53 Wall Street – New Haven)
Free and Open to the Public
Event Co-Sponsors
Afro American Cultural Center at Yale
Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Short Synopsis
André Robert Lee's full scholarship to attend a Philadelphia prep school was supposed to be his way out of the ghetto, but this elite education came at a high personal cost. Join him as he looks inside today’s continuing racial naïveté.
Long Synopsis
André Robert Lee and his sister grew up in the ghettos of Philadelphia while their mother struggled to support them by putting strings in the waistbands of track pants and swimsuits in a local factory. When André was 14 years old, he received what his family believed to be a golden ticket – a full scholarship to attend one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country.
Elite education was André’s way up and out, but at what price? Yes, the exorbitant tuition was covered, but this new world cost him and his family much more than anyone could have anticipated.
In The Prep School Negro, André takes a journey back in time to revisit the events of his adolescence while also spending time with current-day prep school students of color and their classmates to see how much has really changed inside the ivory tower. What he discovers along the way is the poignant and unapologetic truth about who really pays the consequences for yesterday’s accelerated desegregation and today’s racial naiveté.
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