Some of My Best Friends are Black

The Strange Story of Integration in America

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Pub Date Jul 05 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012

Description

An incisive and candid look at how America got lost on the way to Dr. King's Promised Land

Almost fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, equality is the law of the land, but actual integration is still hard to find. Mammoth battles over forced busing, unfair housing practices, and affirmative action have hardly helped. The bleak fact is that black people and white people in the United States don't spend much time together--at work, school, church, or anywhere. Tanner Colby, himself a child of a white-flight Southern suburb, set out to discover why.

An incisive and candid look at how America got lost on the way to Dr. King's Promised Land

Almost fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, equality is the law of the...


Available Editions

EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9780670023714
PRICE $27.95 (USD)
PAGES 304