ABSTRACT
Consider a scenario in which a young man is in a classroom where he is the only Black person. In such an instance, race may feel uppermost to that young man in terms of representation, but being male, an adolescent, a Baptist, gay, a video game player, a Photoshop expert, a baseball player, and a lover of classical music still figures in the ongoing interaction. Some kid, eh? He, along with the rest of the class, is reading Bill Konigsberg’s Out of the Pocket, a young adult novel in which a White all-star quarterback is outed by a student journalist just as he is being recruited by top college teams. As he reads this book in a small southern town near a large army base, he starts to consider his response to the text.
