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Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.
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"White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties "white flight"--the movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns--to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping...
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The story of two African-American kids from Harlem who move to Park Avenue to live with a wealthy white widower and his precocious teenage daughter not only gave audiences lots of laughs, but also something to talk about. Along with their no-nonsense housekeeper, the group was anything but average. They reflected the changing face of the American family and brought issues of race and class into households across the nation.
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