Stories that evoke the pain and promise of black-and-white
relationships The complex truth about the color line--its
destructive effects, painful legacy, clandestine crossings,
possible erasure--is revealed more often in private than in public
and has sometimes been visited more easily by novelists than
historians. In this tradition, Crossing the Color Line, a powerful
collection of nineteen contemporary stories, speaks the unspoken,
explores the hidden, and voices both fear and hope about
relationships between blacks and whites. The volume opens with
stories by Alice Adams, Toni Cade Bambara, Ellen Douglas, Reynolds
Price, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, and John Williams that focus on
misunderstandings created by racial stereotypes and by mislabeling
cultural differences. In a second group of stories, Anthony Grooms,
Randall Kenan, James Alan McPherson, Toni Morrison, Frances
Sherwood, Alice Walker, and Joan Williams examine situations that
promote understanding, even when relationships between blacks and
whites are complicated by charged issues of politics, religion,
class, gender, and sexual orientation. The final section features
recent stories that turn on personal similarities as often as
racial differences, but even here the legacy of racism lingers. It
tests the emerging friendship of Alyce Miller's women, the
professional relationship of David Means's men, the alliances
between Clifford Thompson's college students, the romance of
Reginald McKnight's interracial couple, and the business venture
between Elizabeth Spencer's white woman and black man. Much of the
power and poignancy of these stories, however, comes from their
portrayal of how equal and amiable relationships can cross the
color line.
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