Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America
by Harrington, Walt
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0060165588
- ISBN 13
- 9780060165581
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Handsome volume in burgundy half cloth gilt titled with tan paper-wrapped boards; faint small darkish area on front, otherwise very clean and unmarked. Sewn binding tight and solid, square with sharp corners. Top edge of text block has a pale smudge. Rough cut. Interior is in Fine Condition. Maps on endpapers indicating the author's journeys around America. Walt Harrington is a white man married to an African American woman, with two children. A "joke" about 'those people', when Mr Harrington realized the buut of the joke was his children, led to his 25,000 mile excursion through black America, a personal journey that is also a documentary look at African Americans today. Crossings speaks about race in America today as it cuts across geography, age, occupation, and income. He shows real people dealing with real situations. 466 pages with index, 9.75 x 6.5 inches. HarperCollins, NY 1993.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015383
- Title
- Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America
- Author
- Harrington, Walt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060165588
- ISBN 13
- 9780060165581
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- AFRICAN AMERICANS RACE RELATIONS HARRINGTON, WALT, 1950- JOURNEYS RACISM CLASS BLACK-WHITE FREINDSHIPS ILLITERACY
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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