Racing Across the Lines: by Deborah L. Plummer

Author: Deborah L. Plummer

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Changing Race Relations through Friendship

In Racing Across the Lines, Plummer offers a valuable personal testament to her journeys across America’s racial divide. But more than that, she provides a thoughtful look at the importance of interracial relationships and at the possibilities they offer all of us. In this America of the 21st Century, as Plummer makes clear, Americans no longer have the luxury of being racial isolationists. Our well-being as a nation may well depend on our ability to forge relationships across racial and ethnic lines. For those searching for a path that leads to a brighter, more enlightened tomorrow, Plummer is a most reliable guide.” - Ellis Cose, author of The Rage of a Privileged Class, Bone to Pick, and Color-Blind

“Through a series of personal and shared experiences, Plummer suggests that all Americans make a conscious effort to establish new friendships beyond their own racial group, or work even harder to maintain those interracial friendships they already have….If we follow Plummer's advice, we will stop being as ‘separate as fingers.' Instead, we can start viewing ourselves as members of a common family; the human family.” - The Rev. Marvin A. McMickle, pastor, Antioch Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio and professor, Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio

“This combination memoir/discussion guide is solidly based on Plummer’s professional and scholarly understanding of diversity issues. She challenges readers to think beyond the workplace to examine personal relations across racial boundaries as one step toward achieving a just society.” - Adrienne Lash Jones, emeritus associate professor of African American Studies, Oberlin College

“Wow! What an eye opener! As a white man living and ministering within the Black community for over 20 years, Plummer’s observations are quite refreshing. In a world where ‘differences’ are sometimes considered ‘deficiencies,’ it is a blessing to see that differences can be highlighted and celebrated.” - Rev. John S. Breslin, pastor, St. Ailbe Catholic Church, Chicago

0.32" H x 8.44" L x 5.54" W (0.41 lbs) 128 pages
Publisher: Pilgrim Press
Pub Date: September 2004

DEBORAH L. PLUMMER is professor of psychology and director of the Diversity Management Program at Cleveland State University. She received her PhD from Kent State University. She lives with her husband Michael Bussey in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Racing Across the Lines: by Deborah L. Plummer Author: Deborah L. Plummer
	Item#	Type	Price
	082981602X	Paperback	11.95
Plummer examines contemporary race relations through the lens of friendship and patterns of cross-racial socializing, and offers personal insight as well as perspectives from focus groups she conducted of persons between 15 and 65.

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