Prologue: Negroes I Have Met While Yachting -- 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.
Summary:
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.
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