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Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Changing America's Schools
Contributor(s): Jennings, Kevin (Author)

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 ISBN: 0807071471     ISBN-13: 9780807071472
Publisher: Beacon Press
OUR PRICE: $21.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2007
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Annotation: Jennings's poignant, razor-sharp memoir describes growing up in poverty in the South, the death of his fundamentalist preacher father when he was eight, and his discovery of a world beyond poverty--a world of education and a world where it was possible to live openly as a gay man.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.6" W x 8.7" L (0.84 lbs) 267 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Gay
- Cultural Region - South
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Publisher Description:
Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his elementary school days in the conservative South, where faggot became more familiar to him than his own name. Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son is that rare memoir that is both a riveting personal story and an inside account of a critical chapter in our recent history. Creating safe schools for all youth is now a central part of the progressive agenda in American education--and Kevin Jennings is at the forefront of that fight. Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son earned an A- in Entertainment Weekly, was featured in Salon and The Advocate, and was called a great read by People.
 
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