Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America - Softcover

Walt Harrington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082621259X ISBN 13: 9780826212597

Publisher: University of Missouri Press, 1999

Synopsis

Crossings One day in the dentist's office journalist Walt Harrington heard a casual racist joke that left him enraged. Married to a black woman, Harrington is the father of two biracial children. His experience in the dentist's office made him realize not only that the joke was about his own children but also that he really knew very little about what it was like to be a black person in America.After this r... Full description

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Review:

"A message in a bottle floated out to white America about black America's remarkable diversity and resilience."--"New York Newsday"

"Mr. Harrington . . . brings a keen reportorial eye and a graceful writing style to his immense project."--"New York Times Book Review"

"Candid and rich. . . . Harrington remains a good companion, in part because he's wonderfully frank."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"Mr. Harrington . . . is gifted with an unintrusive style that permits his subjects to speak freely. Some of them share with him perceptions that they have been nurturing nearly all their lives."--"Washington Times"

"While Harrington wrote this book for white, middle-class American readers, blacks will enjoy his vignettes as well. [He] records voices from tomorrow's black history taking place today, voices that otherwise might have been overlooked." --"Black Enterprise"

"Vivid. . . . a fascinating and enlightening montage for blacks and whites alike."--"People"

"Honest and devoid of flackery . . . so different from what we're used to reading about blacks that it seems almost subversive." "Atlantic""

"A message in a bottle floated out to white America about black America's remarkable diversity and resilience." "New York Newsday""

"Vivid. . . . a fascinating and enlightening montage for blacks and whites alike." "People""

Magisterial. . . . An engrossing, multilayered portrait"as well as a touching personal odyssey." "Kirkus Reviews""

About the Author:

An award-winning journalist and former staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine, Walt Harrington is currently Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of At the Heart of It: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives and American Profiles: Somebodies and Nobodies Who Matter (both from the University of Missouri Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 082621259X
• ISBN 13: 9780826212597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488