Place of Privilege: Young, Black and in an unexpected place of privilege

There are private schools all across the country, places with better resources, better teachers, better budgets. By definition, these schools are not for the public. They are private. They are exclusive. They are for those who can afford better. Rarely does that include black students. In the 1960's, it almost never did.And then there are the ultra-elite private schools, the super schools; places where the resources, the curriculum and the tuition are comparable to the best liberal arts colleges. These are schools where lineage is a factor in the admission process. These are not schools for those who can afford better, they are schools for those who can afford only the very best.These are places of privilege.In New York, the crown jewel place of privilege is The Dalton School; one of the most prestigious, elite prep schools in the nation, recognized globally for its visionary progressive educational philosophy and its ultra-wealthy, celebrity student body. Whenever popular culture needs a readily recognizable reference for the alma mater of the extraordinarily rich and famous, they simply say "Dalton." Dalton is where the purebred 1% are taught and groomed to become the next generation of America's power elite.In the mid-1960s, Dalton Dalton reached out to previously unfamiliar communities and actively recruited minority students. Written by two of the young black men who were among the new and very different members of the Dalton family during that historic time, "Place Of Privilege" provides the remarkable narrative of the pathfinder courses their lives would take. Co-written by Mark Robinson and Ray Smaltz, about the experiences of the first young black men to attend The Dalton School in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the book is both personal memoir and historical narrative.

Biographies & Memoirs

Robinson, Mark S

Smaltz, Raymond B

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Place of Privilege Group, LLC

The ultra-elite private schools, the super schools; places where the resources, the curriculum and the tuition are comparable to the best liberal arts colleges. These are schools where lineage is a factor in the admission process. These are not schools for those who can afford better, they are schools for those who can afford only the very best.\nThese are places of privilege.\nRarely do they include black students. In the 1960's, they almost never did.\nIn New York, the crown jewel place of privilege is The Dalton School; one of the most prestigious, elite prep schools in the nation, recognized globally for its visionary progressive educational philosophy and its ultra-wealthy, celebrity student body. Dalton is where Anderson Cooper was a student, Jeffrey Epstein was a teacher and Robert Redford and Bob Fosse were members of the PTA.\nIn the mid-1960s, Dalton reached out to previously unfamiliar communities and for the first time actively recruited minority students. Mark and Ray are among the very first young Black men to attend Dalton. "Place Of Privilege" provides the remarkable narrative of the pathfinder courses their lives would take. This is the story of how Dalton changed their lives forever, and how their presence changed Dalton forever.

Smaltz, Raymond

Black On Madison Avenue

"Black on Madison Avenue" tells the shocking truth about one of the most un-diverse white-collar professions in America.\n"Black on Madison Avenue" tells the explosive stories that Madison Avenue doesn't want you to read.\n"Black on Madison Avenue" reveals the incredible experiences of a Black man who has spent 40+ years on Madison Avenue at some of the advertising industry's most prestigious agencies andgives readers a rare glimpse of what it's like to be one of the very, very few Black professionals in the advertising agency business.\nAdvertising decides what America wants. And yet, for an industry that professes to be the vanguard of creativity, popular culture and forward thinking, advertising is one of the most un-diverse white-collar professions in America. Surprisingly, despite all of its public gestures of "wokeness", Madison Avenue would like to keep it that way.\n"Black on Madison Avenue" explains how - and why - the author landed on Madison Avenue, and shares some of his incredible adventures over the past 40+ years. Yes, adventures. Have you ever gotten into a shouting match with a Venezuelan Army general in the middle of a military coup? He has. He kidnapped advertising legend Jim Jordan, insulted high-ranking Chinese government officials at a formal dinner and launched the first multicultural marketing holding company.\nMark Robinson was the co-founder of Spike/DDB, along with filmmaker Spike Lee and has stories no one else could tell. Robinson's stories include Bill Cosby, Mike Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Usher, Oprah, Zsa Zsa Gabor, James Brown and Notorious B.I.G.\n"I have given my entire adult professional life to this business. Advertising is not just what I do. It is a part of who I am. I am Black on Madison Avenue."

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Alliance Books

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