Out of Frame: Growing Up Where I Didn't Belong - Softcover

Bennett, Michael Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986416266 ISBN 13: 9780986416262

Publisher: 727 Squared, Inc., 2026

Synopsis

Out of Frame: Growing Up Where I Didn't Belong

Some experiments leave marks on the children who lived them.

Out of Frame is a ground-level account of African American history that rarely makes the textbooks — the military family experience that unfolded alongside desegregation, forced busing, and the quiet machinery of race inside institutions that never named what they were doing to the children in their care.

Raised within the rigid order of military life, Michael Gordon Bennett moved between countries, cultures, and a country still sorting out who belonged where. As a Black child navigating white military culture, the Deep South during busing, and near-total racial isolation in Colorado, he learned early to read authority, adapt quickly, and remain composed in systems that prized discipline over clarity — mistaking structure for safety, unaware of how race and hierarchy shaped what he was permitted to see.

This is history with a face. And the face remembers.

For readers of narrative nonfiction, educators, and anyone who has ever navigated institutions that were not built with them in mind.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Gordon Bennett is a writer and film producer whose work explores identity, belonging, and the unseen costs of ambition. His writing draws from lived experience within institutional systems that shape who is seen-and who is not. He is the author of Out of Frame: Growing Up Where I Didn't Belong and the producer of narrative projects focused on underrepresented histories and perspectives. Bennett's work is grounded in observation and reflection, examining how structure, authority, and silence influence self-perception long before they are understood.

Edition details

• Publisher: 727 Squared, Inc.
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0986416266
• ISBN 13: 9780986416262
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214