Examine Black identity in the surroundings of White America from the perspective of Black Women. Now explore the life of white guy who realized that he didn’t know any Black people and went on a journey to discover why the civil rights movement failed to make social change happen.

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America

Authors: Char rises Jones and Kumea Shorter-Golden, PH.D.

Based on the African American Women's Voices project, a study with four hundred women across the United States that represents a diverse range of black women, Shifting reveals the subtle pressure black women feel to "shift" their real selves as a coping mechanism to accommodate and placate the many groups that comprise American society. From one interaction to the next, black women change their behavior both internally and externally--shifting "white," then shifting "black" again, shifting "corporate," shifting "cool"--a survival skill that often diminishes the joys of living an authentic life. 

Some of My Best Friends Are Black

Author: Tanner Colby

Frank, funny, and incisive, Some of My Best Friends Are Black offers a profoundly honest portrait of race in America. In a book that is part reportage, part history, part social commentary, Tanner Colby explores why the civil rights movement ultimately produced such little true integration in schools, neighborhoods, offices, and churches--the very places where social change needed to unfold. Weaving together the personal, intimate stories of everyday people--black and white--Colby reveals the strange, sordid history of what was supposed to be the end of Jim Crow, but turned out to be more of the same with no name. He shows us how far we have come in our journey to leave mistrust and anger behind--and how far all of us have left to go.