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My First White Friend
Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
Patricia Raybon - Author
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Book: Paperback | 5.15 x 7.71in | 256 pages | ISBN 9780140244366 | 01 Jun 1997 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP
My First White Friend
"In mid-life Afro-American journalist Raybon made a conscious decision to stop hating white people. Her journal/analysis provides discourse on hatred and forgiveness, the rise of her hatred, and her efforts to conquer her fears and forgive the past. An unusual account of conscious change."—Kirkus Reviews. Prologue

Part One: Race
1 A History with Demons
2 The Problem Is Me?
3 Down By the Cross
4 All Shook Up
5 A Letter to My First White Friend

Part Two: Forgiveness
6 Seeking
7 Finding
8 Knowing

Part Three: Love (Four Stories and an Ending)

9 Real Life
10 Regarding Mother
11 School Daze
12 The Affirmation
13 Setting to Right

Epilogue
Acknowledgments

Christopher Award for Nonfiction

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