{"product_id":"first-acts-kermit-frazier-9781476688428","title":"First Acts: A Black Playwright Comes of Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e Playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.C., during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. As a student at an all-Black elementary school, Kermit was selected for a newly formed honors track at a predominantly white secondary school. Traveling a complex path, Kermit tore down segregation barriers, balanced on an academic pedestal, and battled an internal war of denial against his same-sex attractions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This memoir is not a story about a young man rising from \"the hood\" but rather a young Black man struggling with stereotypes, identity, and mild dyslexia while straddling two middle-class worlds, Black and white, and striving not to be everyone's \"other.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kermit Frazier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476688427\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476688428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.47d","brand":"Kermit Frazier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945843458303,"sku":"9781476688428","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fe4795be-741f-4b83-9f24-289a59910534.jpg?v=1681510077","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/first-acts-kermit-frazier-9781476688428","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}