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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The item Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- xviii, 294 p.
- Contents
-
- 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 dight
- 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
- 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
-
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
- Colby, Tanner -- Travel -- United States
- Racism -- United States
- African Americans -- Race identity
- United States -- Race relations
- White people -- Race identity -- United States
- White people -- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Description and travel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- United States
- Racism
- White people
- White people
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Colby, Tanner
- United States
- Label
- Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby
- Contents
- 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 dight -- 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
- Control code
- ocm759911206
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xviii, 294 p.
- Isbn
- 9780670023714
- Lccn
- 2011043901
- System control number
- (Sirsi) l2011043901
- Label
- Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America, Tanner Colby
- Contents
- 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 dight -- 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
- Control code
- ocm759911206
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xviii, 294 p.
- Isbn
- 9780670023714
- Lccn
- 2011043901
- System control number
- (Sirsi) l2011043901
Subject
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
- Colby, Tanner -- Travel -- United States
- Racism -- United States
- African Americans -- Race identity
- United States -- Race relations
- White people -- Race identity -- United States
- White people -- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Description and travel
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