Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America / Tanner Colby.

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
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Colby, Tanner > Travel > United States.
Racism > United States.
White people > Race identity > United States.
White people > United States > Social conditions.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
HISTORY / United States / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
United States > Description and travel.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:xvii, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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 theCountry 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 the Grand Coteau
  • Into The Wilderness
  • Milk and Honey.