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DREAMING IN COLOR, LIVING IN BLACK & WHITE HOLLIDAY
Simon & Schuster 0671041274 / 9780671041274 Paperback New
Grade 6-9-In this abridgment of Holliday's Children of the Dream (Pocket, 1999), 17 African Americans who vary in age from teen to senior citizen recount pivotal, painful experiences from their youth that exposed them to the continuing reality of racism in 20th-century America. Their occupations include church minister, English professor, death-row inmate, school librarian, journalist, psychologist, and college student. The accounts bear witness to cruelties or injustices that shaped their attitudes and futures and propelled them toward retaliation, self-reliance, perseverance, and/or justice. Issues of affirmative action, racial inferiority, cultural differences, slavery, and black pride are raised. An epithet shatters an interracial childhood friendship; a white teacher disparages the abilities of two African-American students; an 11-year-old boy is arrested and brutalized by two sheriffs after robbing a white boy; a shy, outcast sixth grader strikes out at the racism around her; and a Yale student with limited finances justifies shoplifting books from the college bookstore.
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