Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America / Tanner Colby.
Colby, Tanner.
2012
E184.A1 C537 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America / Tanner Colby.
Author Colby, Tanner.
ISBN 9780670023714
067002371X
Imprint New York : Viking, 2012.
Language English
Description xvii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers 40021107638
Call Number E184.A1 C537 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896/073
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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PART 1.
Letter from a Birmingham suburb
Bus kid
A place apart
Oreo
What can brown do for you?
Go rebels?
PART 2.
Planning for permanence
There goes the Neighborhood
"Have you seen the country club district?"
49/63 or fight
Turf
Desirable associations
PART 3.
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?
PART 4.
Canaan
The race that prays together
The strange career of Jesus Christ
The miracle of the Grand Coteau
Into the wilderness
Milk and honey.

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