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Thirty white and African American contributors share their experiences with racism, including the views of a twelve-year-old girl, experiences in the workplace, and the ever-present problems still faced in today's society.
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Bernestine Singley, a Harvard Law School graduate, is a lawyer and corporate executive. Her work appears in a number of anthologies, including Children of the Dream. Singley was named the 1997–98 Dewitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellow during a residency at the MacDowell Colony.
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"...this powerful book—entertaining, arresting—will give you plenty to want to defend and protect." -- Al Young, poet/novelist/essayist
"A mesmerizing book . . . refreshingly honest" -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"A remarkable group of 30 writers—black and white, women and men, young and old—truly make race real for us..." -- Mimi Abramovitz, author of Regulating The Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times To the Present
"All of the essays are first-rate" -- Courtland Milloy, Washington Post
"Blacks and whites . . . talk . . . about both the privilege and the prejudice, and how they are negotiated, challenged, or ignored." -- Booklist
"I will reach for this book...whenever I need to be inspired by the wise...honest company in it." -- Mary Kay Blakely, author of American Mom: Motherhood, Politics and Humble Pie
"No book will ever capture all the permutations of racial conflict and racial amity . . . But this book . . . captures plenty." -- Steve Weinberg, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"One of the year’s most enlightening, important reads on America’s most enduring dilemma" -- Black Issues Book Review
"This compilation of black and white writers' essays on race made for powerful, raw reading" -- Austin-American Statesman
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- PublisherLawrence Hill Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 155652448X
- ISBN 13 9781556524486
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages335
- EditorSingley Bernestine, Bell Derrick A.
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