Member of the Club; Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World

xvii, 300, [1] pages. Index. Signed by author. Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962) is an African-American attorney and New York Times best-selling author. Lawrence Otis Graham is a corporate and real estate attorney as well as a New York Times bestselling author of 14 non-fiction books on the subject of politics, education, race and class in America. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Glamour, U.S. News & World Report and Reader's Digest, where he has served as a contributing editor. His book Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Essence Magazine bestseller, as well as a selection of the Book of the Month Club. Netflix is currently developing a series based on the book. Astute observer and ruminative author Lawrence Otis Graham continues his candid search for racial and ethnic understanding in essays with topics as diverse as life as a black Princetonian and Harvard-trained lawyer to the experience of being a black busboy at an all-white country club. Informed and propelled by his status as an upper-middle-class African American who lives in a predominately white environment, Graham offers a unique perspective on the subject of race. Reprint. First Edition [stated]. Third printing.…