Informed and driven by his experience as an upper-middle-class African American who lives and works in a predominately white environment, provocative author Lawrence Otis Graham offers a unique perspective on the subject of race. An uncompromising work that will challenge the mindset of every reader, <I>Member of the Club</I> is a searching book of essays ranging from examining life as a black Princetonian and corporate lawyer to exploring life as a black busboy at an all white country-club. From New York magazine cover stories <I>Invisible Man</I> and <I>Harlem on My Mind</I> to such new essays as "I Never Dated a White Girl" and "My Dinner with Mister Charlie: A Black Man's Undercover Guide to Dining with Dignity at Ten Top New York Restaurants," Graham challenges racial prejudice among White Americans while demanding greater accountability and self-determination from his peers in black America. <P> "In <I>Member of the Club</I>. [Graham writes of] heartbreaking ironies and contradictions, indignities and betrayals in the life of an upper-class black man." --<I>Philadelphia Inquirer</I> <P> "Lawrence Graham Surely knows about the pressures of being beholden to two very different groups." --<I>Los Angeles Times</I> <P> Lawrence Otis Graham is a popular commentator on race and ethnicity. The author of ten other books, his work has appeared in <I>New York</I> magazine, the <I>New York Times</I> and<I> The Best American Essays</I>.