Blacks and Whites Meeting in America: Eighteen Essays on Race

Terry White (Curatore)

McFarland & Co Inc, 2003

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.

• Curatore: Terry White
• Editore: McFarland & Co Inc
• Anno: 2003
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 251 p.
• Peso: 341 gr.
• EAN: 9780786415410

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