{"product_id":"crossing-the-color-line-suzanne-w-jones-9781570033766","title":"Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStories that evoke the pain and promise of black-and-white relationships\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe complex truth about the color line--its destructive effects, painful legacy, clandestine crossings, possible erasure--is revealed more often in private than in public and has sometimes been visited more easily by novelists than historians. In this tradition, \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Color Line, \u003c\/i\u003e a powerful collection of nineteen contemporary stories, speaks the unspoken, explores the hidden, and voices both fear and hope about relationships between blacks and whites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume opens with stories by Alice Adams, Toni Cade Bambara, Ellen Douglas, Reynolds Price, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, and John Williams that focus on misunderstandings created by racial stereotypes and by mislabeling cultural differences. In a second group of stories, Anthony Grooms, Randall Kenan, James Alan McPherson, Toni Morrison, Frances Sherwood, Alice Walker, and Joan Williams examine situations that promote understanding, even when relationships between blacks and whites are complicated by charged issues of politics, religion, class, gender, and sexual orientation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final section features recent stories that turn on personal similarities as often as racial differences, but even here the legacy of racism lingers. It tests the emerging friendship of Alyce Miller's women, the professional relationship of David Means's men, the alliances between Clifford Thompson's college students, the romance of Reginald McKnight's interracial couple, and the business venture between Elizabeth Spencer's white woman and black man. Much of the power and poignancy of these stories, however, comes from their portrayal of how equal and amiable relationships can cross the color line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suzanne W. Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570033765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570033766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 5.97w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/13\/2000 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2001 pg. 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2000 pg. 691\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2001 pg. 67 - Strongly Recommended","brand":"Suzanne W. Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44129518452991,"sku":"9781570033766","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5df8b62b-4b81-47d4-ad4c-406402c4cc6d.jpg?v=1687464349","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crossing-the-color-line-suzanne-w-jones-9781570033766","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}