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Colby, Tanner.
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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-
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Description and travel.
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Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America / Tanner Colby.
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Colby, Tanner.
New York : Viking, 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-
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780670023714 :
067002371X
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xvii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
pt. 1. Letter from a Birmingham suburb : Bus kid ; A place apart ; Oreo ; What can brown do for you? ; Go Rebels? -- pt. 2. Planning for permanence : There goes the neighborhood ; "Have you seen the country club district?" ; 49/63 or fight ; Turf ; Desirable associations -- pt. 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? -- pt. 4. Canaan : The race that prays together ; The strange career of Jesus Christ ; The miracle of Grand Coteau ; In the wilderness ; Milk and honey.
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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.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
305.89607 Co
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