| The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South Contributor(s): Davidson, Osha Gray (Author) |
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ISBN: 153846926X ISBN-13: 9781538469262 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Locality - Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Topical - Black History - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davidson, Osha Gray: - Osha Gray Davidson is a freelance writer, photographer, and author of several books of nonfiction, including The Best of Enemies, Clean Break, and Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control, among others. He is a contributing editor of Earthzine.org and a regular contributor to Rolling Stone magazine. His work has appeared in National Geographic, Discover, Washington Spectator, New York Times, Mother Jones, Popular Science, Slate, and the Washington Post. He co-wrote the screenplay for the award-winning IMAX documentary, Coral Reef Adventure. His book, The Best of Enemies, is the basis for a major motion picture. |