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Author Ambar, Saladin M., author.

Title Stars and shadows : the politics of interracial friendship from Jefferson to Obama / Saladin Ambar.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.2 AMBAR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  305.8 AMBAR    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  306.2097 AMBAR    Check Shelf
Description xxii, 250 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index.
Contents Introduction: Tea and cigars: The case for friendship -- An exchange of letters: Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson -- Three meetings: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln -- Color lines: W.E.B. Du Bois and William James -- First ladies: Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt -- Veins: Ralph Ellison, Shirley Jackson, and Stanly Hyman -- Scripts: James Baldwin and Marlon Brando -- Mocambo: Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe -- Riverside: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Icons and intersectionalities: Angela David and Gloria Steinem -- A bestowal: Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Summary "The oppression of Blacks is America's original sin -- a sin that took root in 1619 and plagues the country to this day. Yet there have been instances of interracial bonding and friendship even in the worst of times. In Stars and Shadows -- a term taken from Huckleberry Finn -- Saladin Ambar analyzes two centuries of noteworthy interracial friendships that served as windows into the state of race relations in the US and, more often than not, as models for advancing the cause of racial equality."-- Publisher description.
Subject Interracial friendship -- United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government -- History.
Interracial friendship -- Political aspects -- United States.
Interracial friendship -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
ISBN 0197621996
9780197621998
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