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Bearing Witness: Growing To Maturity In Shades of Dark and Light: Storied Life Events on the Road to Racial Understanding, 1945-2000
Bearing Witness: Growing To Maturity In Shades of Dark and Light: Storied Life Events on the Road to Racial Understanding, 1945-2000
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This uniquely creative history traces author Felton’s life-passage as a white man, interacting with Black persons throughout formative and young-adult years. The book’s two parts interweave both nonfiction narrative and short fiction into a compelling whole.
Recent reports declared Americans had the least diverse "friendship groups" of any society. Addressing this problem, Part One follows the author's involvements integrating Oak Ridge, Tennessee schools; personal effects of 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education; contacts between Black and white communities in the West/Midwest; and meanings from 1965’s Watts Riots. Part Two is a fictional rendering of the postwar experience of a young white boy being raised by a Black woman in mid-century Tennessee.
The book’s thrust and advocacy show how contacts on elemental levels between the races can be enriching, meaningful, and life-changing. A trenchant text bearing moral lessons without preachments, Felton’s ninth book is a “must-read” for the contemporary racial conversation.
Recent reports declared Americans had the least diverse "friendship groups" of any society. Addressing this problem, Part One follows the author's involvements integrating Oak Ridge, Tennessee schools; personal effects of 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education; contacts between Black and white communities in the West/Midwest; and meanings from 1965’s Watts Riots. Part Two is a fictional rendering of the postwar experience of a young white boy being raised by a Black woman in mid-century Tennessee.
The book’s thrust and advocacy show how contacts on elemental levels between the races can be enriching, meaningful, and life-changing. A trenchant text bearing moral lessons without preachments, Felton’s ninth book is a “must-read” for the contemporary racial conversation.
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