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BLACKS AND WHITES MEETING IN AMERICA
EIGHTEEN ESSAYS ON RACE |
| By: |
Terry White (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£39.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
078641541X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780786415410 |
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| Publisher: |
MCFARLAND & CO INC |
| Pub. date: |
6 February, 2003 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
This is a collection of papers presented at the David K. Shipler Colloquium on the book "A Country of Strangers", held in 2001. They explore such topics as blacks and whites in the performing arts; racial profiling; race, work and wholeness; and racism in American baseball. |
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On September 14, 2001, Kent State University's Ashtabula campus sponsored the David K. Shipler Colloquium on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 book cited above, A Country of Strangers. This is a collection of 18 of the papers presented. They explore such topics as blacks and whites in the performing arts; racial profiling; racism in American baseball; race, work and wholeness; musical style as a symbol of black cultural identity; the early Newberry Library in Chicago; the use of the body by artists to reveal the mind; Southern white ministers at mid-century; building a diverse and respectful campus community; organizational changes creating a new climate for racial equality; the missing voice of the Spanish-speaking in the black-white dialogue; the concept of equality of educational opportunity for African Americans; and praises, criticism and comments for A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. |
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illustrations, bibliography, indexes |
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US |
| Imprint: |
McFarland & Co Inc |
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Non-returnable |
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