Some of My Best Friends Are Black The Strange Story of Integration in America

Name: Some of My Best Friends Are Black The Strange Story of Integration in America
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ISBN: 9780670023714

ISBN-10: 067002371X

ISBN-13: 9780670023714

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tanner Colby

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An incisive and candid look at how America got lost on the way to Dr. King’s Promised LandAlmost fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech, equality is the law of the land, but actual integration is still hard to find. Mammoth battles over forced busing, unfair housing practices, and affirmative action have hardly helped. The bleak fact is that black people and white people in the United States don’t spend much time together—at work, school, church, or anywhere. Tanner Colby, himself a child of a white-flight Southern suburb, set out to discover why.Some of My Best Friends Are Black chronicles America’s troubling relationship with race through four interrelated…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/5/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144



Preface



Letter from a Birmingham Suburb



Bus Kid



A Place Apart



Oreo



What Can Brown Do for You?



Go Rebels?



Planning for Permanence



There Goes the Neighborhood



"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 Grand Coteau



In the Wilderness



Milk and Honey


Author's Note