The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8078-5869-1
Verlag: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Atwater and Ellis met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South's rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Rich with details about the rhythms of daily life in the mid-twentieth-century South, ""The Best of Enemies"" offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. By placing this very personal story into broader context, Osha Gray Davidson demonstrates that race is intimately tied to issues of class, and that cooperation is possible - even in the most divisive situations - when people begin to listen to one another.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Osha Gray

Über Autor(innen)

Osha Gray Davidson is a journalist and author of four other books, including The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef and Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control.