[Publib] I have stumped myself - I head this on This American Life....

[Preslar, Gail]

http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/00/173.html
<http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/00/173.html>  
 
Act Two. Deceiving Others. Lawrence Otis Graham reads from an account of
how he left his job as a $105,000-a-year Manhattan attorney to enter the
exclusive Greenwich Country Club the only way they'd allow a black man
like him: as a busboy. The account is from his book Member of the Club.
<http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=28734&cgi=product&isb
n=0060984309>  (16 minutes)
 

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[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Anne Killheffer
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:30 AM
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Subject: [I] [Publib] I have stumped myself


I never thought I would be one of those patrons who can't remember the
title of a book, but here I am. I
have tried OCLC, Google, Amazon.com, the Infotrac magazine index and the
index of the New York Times without finding what I am looking for. It
doesn't help that my memory is a bit foggy. 
 
Does anyone remember....  about five to seven years ago, I believe, a
book was published by an African-American professional man (possibly a
lawyer or stockbroker), who temporarily "went undercover" in a series of

service jobs and wrote about his experiences of the unpleasant way that
many people treat Black people in "menial" jobs. One incident I remember
in particular was that he was a waiter in a restaurant or country club
in Greenwich, CT, where the customers made crude racial insults to his
face. 
 
It might have just been a long article in the New York Times Sunday
Magazine, but I believe it was an entire book. The man was based in the
New York/ tristate region. 
 
Help, anyone? 
 
I have stumped myself. 
 
 

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