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Some of my best friends are Black the strange story of integration in America

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 Louisian...

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Main Author: Colby, Tanner.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Viking, 2012.
Subjects:
Hays, Sara Light tribute.
Colby, Tanner > Travel > United States.
Racism > United States.
Whites > Race identity > United States.
Whites > United States > Social conditions.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
United States > Race relations.
United States > Description and travel.
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.
Physical Description: xvii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780670023714
067002371X
Author Notes: Tanner Colby is the author of Belushi: A Biography and the New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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