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#1 - the story of Vestavia (outside Birmingham), with details about busing, integration, and the impact of these practices on neighborhoods. The book is told in four separate, substantive narratives: Now white teachers had no idea what they were dealing with, and the black kids were just passing through, unattached. “In black schools, they’d had teachers that cared. “Integration was devastating for that first generation of black children…” Colby did an exceptional job capturing the human element of this long-term struggle. (Tanner Colby is a terrific storyteller!) Mr. It is a flowing narrative that is engaging, and painful, and yet ends with some hope. It is not academic, though it is filled with facts and details.
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It is not quite history, though there is plenty of history. Here’s my impression: this is my new “this is the book to read” book on race relations in America. I am presenting my synopsis of this terrific book today (May 16, 2013). And, I present my synopses of these books at the Urban Engagement Book Club for CitySquare. I have read many books on race relations and the history of the “civil rights” struggle. I have just finished reading Tanner Colby’s Some of My Best Friends Are Black. Tanner Colby - Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America If advertising is aspirational, who in the 1950s aspired to be black? And therein lay the root of the industry’s problem with race, both in the office and on the airwaves. Buy this product, take it home, and you’ll be safer, happier, and more attractive. They tap into some unsatisfied desire and then sell you the solution for it.
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We all know that advertising is a big con to get us to spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need.