{"product_id":"some-of-my-best-friends-writings-on-interracial-friendships-9780060082772","title":"Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this unusually honest book of essays and other writings, Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships: Latino and white, black and Asian, black and Jewish. In essays from such celebrated writers as Pam Houston, Darryl Pickney, Luis Rodriguez, and Susan Straight, among many others, you'll meet a young Italian American college student who rooms with a sophisticated young black man who can trace his college-educated elders back several generations; a second-generation Korean American from the \"hood\" who is more comfortable with Latinos and blacks than with Korean kids who grew up in the suburbs; and a Jewish man who reflects on his friendship with a black opera singer. Though culturally and ethnically at odds, perhaps, they call each other friends; working together, playing together, opening their homes and hearts, even when they have every reason not to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes controversial, sometimes funny, but always thought-provoking, \u003cem\u003eSome of My Best Friends\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely work on a subject that has yet to be fully explored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernard, Emily:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e Emily Bernard was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She has a B.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. She teaches in the English Department and ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Vermont. Bernard is editor of \u003cem\u003eRemember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603089588498,"sku":"9780060082772","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bee5a415-c3ea-46d7-b316-383e609229b7.jpg?v=1757423372","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/some-of-my-best-friends-writings-on-interracial-friendships-9780060082772","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}