| #679074 in Books | Fales Corinna | 2016-10-07 | Original language:English | 9.00 x.62 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | Different Our Universal Longing for Community||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Can we find community with those who are different from us? Read this book to learn about a place which did, and didn't, do this|By Customer|This is a wonderful book about children growing up in the 50's on a historically black college. It connects thier experience to the human drive to be part of a community. Through the use of interviews with the now grown children we see ho||"A beautifully written story; fascinating and actual, commensurate with grace and simplicity. A deeply personal legacy about race, history, and culture, reaching deep into the American soul." Terry Williams, Fellow at Yale University and Professor at New Schoo
Plunging readers into disturbing and contemporary terrain of the human heart, the author (a daughter of Jewish refugees) interviews individuals from Lincoln University--the first degree-granting historically Black university--where she grew up before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. From a prominent Black civil-rights leader to the White son of an alleged KKK member, her interviews form an original history that illuminates our strengths and our universal difficul...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Different: Our Universal Longing for Community | Corinna Fales. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
