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Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America
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Title
Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America / Tanner Colby.
ISBN
9780670023714
067002371X
Published
New York : Viking, 2012.
Physical Description
xvii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2012
Contents
Prologue: Negroes I Have Met While Yachting
Letter From a Birmingham Suburb
Bus Kid
Last Days
A Place Apart
Oreo
What Can Brown Do For You?
Go Rebels?
Planning for Permanence
The Berlin Wall of Kansas City
"Have You Seen the Country Club District?"
49/63 or Fight
Turf
Desirable Associations
Why Do Black People Drink Hawaiian Punch
The Old Boys' Network
Mad Black Men
A Whole New Bag
The Inescapable Network
What's Black About It?
Canaan
The Race that Prays Together
The Strange Career of Jesus Christ
The Miracle of the Grand Coteau
Into The Wilderness
Milk and Honey
Epilogue.
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