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Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
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by Tanner Colby


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An irreverent, yet powerful exploration of race relations by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Chris Farley Show
 
Frank, funny, and incisive, Some of My Best Friends Are Black offers a profoundly honest portrait of race in America. In a book that is part reportage, part history, part social commentary, Tanner Colby explores why the civil rights movement ultimately produced such little true integration in schools, neighborhoods, offices, and churches—the very places where social change needed to unfold. Weaving together the personal, intimate stories of everyday people—black and white—Colby reveals the strange, sordid history of what was supposed to be the end of Jim Crow, but turned out to be more of the same with no name. He shows us how far we have come in our journey to leave mistrust and anger behind—and how far all of us have left to go. 

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Tanner Colby is the author of Belushi: A Biography and the New York Times bestseller The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Title Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
  • Author Tanner Colby
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books
  • Date 2013-07-30
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143123637 / 0143123637
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Description and travel, United States - Race relations
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896

About the author

Tanner Colby is the author of Belushi: A Biography and the New York Times bestseller The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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