Stars and Shadows : : the Politics of Interracial Friendship From Jefferson to Obama

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Introduction: Tea and cigars: The case for friendship -- An exchange of letters: Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson -- Three meetings: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln -- Color lines: W.E.B. Du Bois and William James -- First ladies: Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt -- Veins: Ralph Ellison, Shirley Jackson, and Stanly Hyman -- Scripts: James Baldwin and Marlon Brando -- Mocambo: Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe -- Riverside: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Icons and intersectionalities: Angela David and Gloria Steinem -- A bestowal: Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
"The oppression of Blacks is America's original sin -- a sin that took root in 1619 and plagues the country to this day. Yet there have been instances of interracial bonding and friendship even in the worst of times. In Stars and Shadows -- a term taken from Huckleberry Finn -- Saladin Ambar analyzes two centuries of noteworthy interracial friendships that served as windows into the state of race relations in the US and, more often than not, as models for advancing the cause of racial equality."-- Publisher description.

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