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  title info:
    title: Black magic
    sub title: what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
  name:
    name part: Sanders, Chad
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 262 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he quickly concluded that to be successful at work meant playing a certain social game. Each meeting was drenched in white slang and the privileged talk of international travel or folk concerts in San Francisco, which led Chad to believe he needed to emulate whiteness to be successful. So Chad changed. He changed his wardrobe, his behavior, his speech,everything that connected him with his Black identity. And while he finally felt included, he felt awful. So he decided to give up the charade. He reverted back to the methods he learned at the dinner table, or at the Black Baptist church where he'd been raised, or at the concrete basketball courts, barbershops and summertime cookouts. And it paid off. Chad began to land more exciting projects. He earned the respect of his colleagues. Accounting for this turnaround, Chad believes, was something he calls Black Magic, namely resilience, creativity and confidence forged in his experience navigating America as a Black man. Black Magic has emboldened his every step since, leading him to wonder was he alone in this discovery? Were there others who felt the same? In essays, Chad dives into his formative experiences to see if they might offer the possibility of discovering or honing this skill. He tests his theory by interviewing Black leaders across industries to get their take on Black Magic. Black Magic explores Black experiences in predominantly white environments and demonstrates the risks of self-betrayal and the value of being yourself.
  table of contents: Home and neighborhood -- Grade school : gifted and talented programs, private school, and separation -- College : HBCUs, PWIs, and higher learning -- Work -- Spirit : church, God, and faith.
  note: Chad Sanders.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    genre: Interviews
  subject:
    topic: African American leadership
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations
  classification: E185.615 .S2523 2021
  classification: 305.8960973
  identifier: 9781982104221
  identifier: 1982104228
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201117
    record change date: 20210728141434.0
    record identifier: in00004447610