{"product_id":"2940148876052","title":"Bearing Witness: Growing To Maturity In Shades of Dark and Light: Storied Life Events on the Road to Racial Understanding, 1945-2000","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Publish America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48797245735152,"sku":"2940148876052","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148876052_p0.jpg?v=1770324199","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148876052","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}