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Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships

Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships

Bernard, Emily

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0060082771
ISBN13: 9780060082772
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Jun 28 2005
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

In this unusually honest book of essays and other writings, Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships: Latino and white, black and Asian, black and Jewish. In essays from such celebrated writers as Pam Houston, Darryl Pickney, Luis Rodriguez, and Susan Straight, among many others, you'll meet a young Italian American college student who rooms with a sophisticated young black man who can trace his college-educated elders back several generations; a second-generation Korean American from the hood who is more comfortable with Latinos and blacks than with Korean kids who grew up in the suburbs; and a Jewish man who reflects on his friendship with a black opera singer. Though culturally and ethnically at odds, perhaps, they call each other friends; working together, playing together, opening their homes and hearts, even when they have every reason not to.

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