Some of my best friends are Black
Subtitle: the strange story of integration in America
By: Tanner Colby
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780670023714
Subjects: Race relations; Description and travel; Race identity; Whites; Travel; Racism; Social conditions; African Americans
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Negroes I Have Met While Yachting; title: Letter From a Birmingham Suburb; title: Bus Kid; title: Last Days; title: A Place Apart; title: Oreo; title: What Can Brown Do For You?; title: Go Rebels?; title: Planning for Permanence; title: The Berlin Wall of Kansas City; title: "Have You Seen the Country Club District?"; title: 49/63 or Fight; title: Turf; title: Desirable Associations; title: Why Do Black People Drink Hawaiian Punch; title: The Old Boys' Network; title: Mad Black Men; title: A Whole New Bag; title: The Inescapable Network; title: What's Black About It?; title: Canaan; title: The Race that Prays Together; title: The Strange Career of Jesus Christ; title: The Miracle of the Grand Coteau; title: Into The Wilderness; title: Milk and Honey; title: Epilogue.