Becoming Educated: A Midwest Story

A memoir of race, public schooling, and identity as an "integration guinea pig" in the 1980s Midwest.

Becoming Educated is Simone C. Drake’s engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Midwest. Drake, a scholar of literature, culture, and law, uses her own story as a Black girl attending recently desegregated Columbus public schools in the 1980s and 1990s to explore the United States’ most entrenched social problems and how local systems ha...