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Discusses how Americans can confront the racial assumptions that are present in society.

Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church.

Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.

Discusses the author's experience at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. were pastors, recounting his efforts, during the Civil Rights Movement, to set up meetings between white and African-American youth groups, which was met with resistance by white clergy.

Paul Clemens recounts his childhood in Detroit, describing what it was like to grow up white and working class in a city that epitomized white flight and urban decay.

Identifies and discusses the gestures, expressions, words, and body language that hinder communication and trust between African-Americans and whites.

Presents a look at American race relations and cultural diversity, arguing that cultural forces, led by big business, are responsible for a transformation in American identity from white to transracial.

Chronicles the mixing of white and African-American culture throughout American history, discussing religion, art, music, sports, and interracial couples, and examining the attraction each group holds for the other.

An African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who refused to admit her true identity.