![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stars and Shadows is the first work in American political history to offer a comprehensive overview of how friendship has come to shape the possibilities for democratic politics in America. In Stars and Shadows - a term taken from Huckleberry Finn - Saladin Ambar analyzes two centuries of noteworthy interracial friendships that served as windows into the state of race relations in the US and, more often than not, as models for advancing the cause of racial Yet there have been instances of interracial bonding and friendship even in the worst of times. The oppression of Blacks is America's original sin-a sin that took root in 1619 and plagues the country to this day. A sweeping look into interracial friendship's significance in American democracy from the founding to the present. ![]()
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