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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
Resource Information
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 Mid-Continent Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 27 library branches.
Resource Information
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 Mid-Continent Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 27 library branches.
- Summary
- This book 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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- 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
- 9780143123637
- 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
- This book 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
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- Racism
- Whites
- Whites
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Colby, Tanner
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- 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
- 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
- ocn759911206
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143123637
- Lccn
- 2011043901
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- 305.896073 C672 ; XX-N ; [K17BP001, 150@17.00, ES/RT ] ; [A17BP128, #1, 90@17.00, wjm/ ]
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 759911206
- (Sirsi) 759911206
- (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
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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
- 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
- ocn759911206
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143123637
- Lccn
- 2011043901
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- 305.896073 C672 ; XX-N ; [K17BP001, 150@17.00, ES/RT ] ; [A17BP128, #1, 90@17.00, wjm/ ]
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 759911206
- (Sirsi) 759911206
- (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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