The education of Kevin Powell: a boy's journey into manhood

Part I: Trapped in a concrete box. My mother ; that little boy ; Going to school with Martin Luther King, Jr. ; My grandfather and the American South ; My cousin Anthony ; The ghetto ; Puerto Ricans ; Church ; My father ; My mother (part 2) ; The library ; Work ; Aunt Birdie ; John Travolta ; White people and my new White neighborhood ; Man-child ; High school. And the police

Part II: Living on the other side of midnight. Rutgers University ; Kicked out of college ; Newark, New Jersey ; Aunt Cathy. And a new life ; Hip-hop, poetry, and New York City ; My girlfriend and the bathroom door ; MTV's The Real World ; Vibe and Tupac Shakur ; Suicide ; Running for Congress ; Love, a many splintered thing ; Africa ; Finding my father.