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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 Louisiana Catholic...

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Main Author: Colby, Tanner
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2012.
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United States > Race relations.
Racism > United States.
Whites > Race identity > United States.
Whites > United States > Social conditions.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
Colby, Tanner > Travel > United States.
United States > Description and travel.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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