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Title:
Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America
ISBN:
9780670023714
Publication Information:
New York : Viking, 2012.
Physical Description:
xvii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
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.
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