A HOPE IN THE UNSEEN: BOOKNOTES / LITERATURE NOTES

LIST OF CHARACTERS

Minor Characters (Continued)

Minor Characters - Brown

Maura McLarty
Chiniqua's dorm roommate, from Andover, Massachusetts. She takes the same History of Education Class as Cedric.

Freckled blonde girl in History of Education class
Sleeps during the lecture, which Cedric observes.

Two unnamed white professors
Overheard by Cedric at Cafe Paragon, making disparaging comments about affirmative action and minority professors.

Brandon
A black student in Stephan Wheelock's Richard Wright seminar.

Bear Beinfeld
A sophomore who is friends with Zayd Dohrn; their parents are friends from the sixties counterculture movement.

Mimi Yang
Senior psychology major who is the peer counselor for Cedric's unit.

Florian Keil
The roommate of Ira Volker, a German whose family is located in Boston.

Bill Ayers
Father of Zayd Dohrn, also a former leader of the Weather Underground and counterculture fugitive.

Harriet Beinfeld
A friend of Bernadine Dohrn whose son is Bear Beinfeld.

Waitress at Adesso
Serves the Jennings family and tells them the truth about the beet flan.

Mark Schupack
Husband of Helaine Schupack and an emeritus professor of economics at Brown.

Rachel Edy
The most respected of the counselors in Cedric's dorm, East Andrews.

Kathy Boudin
A counterculture radical involved in a Brinks truck robbery, whose friendship with Bernadine Dohrn implicated Bernadine in the crime.

Virginia Lamp Thomas
The wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, she is a topic of conversation for Cedric and Zayd.

Cami
A French girl that Zayd Dohrn knows from high school.

Camoun
Another French girl that Zayd Dohrn knows from high school.

Joan Korb
The wife of Donald Korb.

Jerry
Donald Korb's brother-in-law, a doctor.

Cindy Korb
Donald Korb's daughter.

Caroline
A niece of Donald Korb, who attends the University of Pennsylvania.

Miriam
Donald Korb's aunt, one of the first women to graduate from New York University Law School in 1927.

David Korb
Donald Korb's son.

Franklin Cruz
A student in Professor Tom James' History of Education class and an exemplar of the minority student able to assimilate into mainstream academic culture.

Professor Billy Wooten
Teaches Elementary Psychology that Cedric takes his second semester.

Peter Berman
Instructor of Cedric's second semester Calculus 10 class.

Jake
A friend of Zayd Dohrn.

Mr. Fleming
The eighth grade mathematics teacher at Slater Junior High School, whose classes Cedric attends for an Education class.

Molly Olsen
A modern dance student who befriends Cedric who may be homosexual.

Leslie
A contentious student in Cedric's Fieldwork and Seminar in High School Education.

Unnamed thin white boy
A student in Fieldwork and Seminar in High School Education who suggests writing a play for the midterm.

Unnamed girl
A student in Fieldwork and Seminar in High School Education who speaks about untraditional writing styles for the midterm.

Ted Sizer
A famous education professor at Brown, who taught Larry Wakeford in Harvard.

Unnamed Asian student
Gets a 98 in Professor Wooten's Elementary Psychology class.

Mr. Chin
Runs the Calculus class in which Cedric takes his midterm.

Spandex-clad black woman
Stares at Chiniqua when she is shopping with Cedric at a Popular Club outlet.

White guy in Army jacket
Has an argument with Cedric at a Coconuts music store and may be mentally ill.

Anna
An Asian girl in Cedric's Psychology lab who he claims to be interested in.

Older white man driving Infiniti Q30
Scared by Cedric after he asks how much the car costs.

Julia
A black friend of Chiniqua, she attends a party at Harambee House with Cedric.

Jodie
A black friend of Chiniqua, she attends a party at Harambee House with Cedric.

Caroline
A friend of Rob Burton who lives in a nearby dorm.

Nicole Brown
A forward for Brown's basketball team who starts dating Cedric his sophomore year.

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