The Resource Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby
Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby
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- Summary
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- This work 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. An exploration of race relations, this book offers a portrait of race in America. In a book that is part reportage, part history, part social commentary, the author explores why the civil rights movement ultimately produced such little true integration in schools, neighborhoods, offices, and churches, the very places where social change needed to unfold. Weaving together the personal, intimate stories of everyday people, black and white, he reveals the strange, sordid history of what was supposed to be the end of Jim Crow, but turned out to be more of the same with no name. He shows us how far we have come in our journey to leave mistrust and anger behind, and how far all of us have left to go
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 294 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue: Negroes I Have Met While Yachting
- Letter From a Birmingham Suburb
- Bus Kid
- Last Days
- A Place Apart
- Oreo
- What Can Brown Do For You?
- Go Rebels?
- Planning for Permanence
- The Berlin Wall of Kansas City
- "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 the Grand Coteau
- Into The Wilderness
- Milk and Honey
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780670023714
- Label
- Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America
- Title
- Some of my best friends are Black
- Title remainder
- the strange story of integration in America
- Statement of responsibility
- Tanner Colby
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
- Colby, Tanner -- Travel -- United States
- Racism -- United States
- African Americans -- Race identity
- United States -- Race relations
- Whites -- Race identity -- United States
- Whites -- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Description and travel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- This work 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. An exploration of race relations, this book offers a portrait of race in America. In a book that is part reportage, part history, part social commentary, the author explores why the civil rights movement ultimately produced such little true integration in schools, neighborhoods, offices, and churches, the very places where social change needed to unfold. Weaving together the personal, intimate stories of everyday people, black and white, he reveals the strange, sordid history of what was supposed to be the end of Jim Crow, but turned out to be more of the same with no name. He shows us how far we have come in our journey to leave mistrust and anger behind, and how far all of us have left to go
- 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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Colby, Tanner
- Dewey number
- 305.896/073
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E184.A1
- LC item number
- C537 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Colby, Tanner
- Racism
- Whites
- Whites
- African Americans
- African Americans
- United States
- United States
- Label
- Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: Negroes I Have Met While Yachting -- Letter From a Birmingham Suburb -- Bus Kid -- Last Days -- A Place Apart -- Oreo -- What Can Brown Do For You? -- Go Rebels? -- Planning for Permanence -- The Berlin Wall of Kansas City -- "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 the Grand Coteau -- Into The Wilderness -- Milk and Honey -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 759911206
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670023714
- Lccn
- 2011043901
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759911206
- Label
- Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: Negroes I Have Met While Yachting -- Letter From a Birmingham Suburb -- Bus Kid -- Last Days -- A Place Apart -- Oreo -- What Can Brown Do For You? -- Go Rebels? -- Planning for Permanence -- The Berlin Wall of Kansas City -- "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 the Grand Coteau -- Into The Wilderness -- Milk and Honey -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 759911206
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670023714
- Lccn
- 2011043901
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759911206
Subject
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
- Colby, Tanner -- Travel -- United States
- Racism -- United States
- African Americans -- Race identity
- United States -- Race relations
- Whites -- Race identity -- United States
- Whites -- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Description and travel
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