Blacks and whites meeting in America : eighteen essays on race / edited by Terry White.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

White, Terry, 1950-

Conference Name:

David K. Shipler Colloquium on Race (2001 : Kent State University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

United States--Race relations--Congresses.

United States.

Race relations.

Racism--United States--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, [2003]

Summary:

On September 14, 2001, Kent State University's Ashtabula campus sponsored the David K. Shipler Colloquium on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 book A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. This is a collection of 18 of the papers. The essays 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.

Notes:

"Papers from the 2001 David K. Shipler Colloquium on Race at Kent State University. Ashtabula, Ohio."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

078641541X

OCLC:

51204216