Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town

By Mike Kelly

Book Overview

Examining current problems in Teaneck, New Jersey--the first town to vote to desegregate its schools--a study reveals that it is again a model city facing issues of integrated housing, multicultural... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688117953
• ISBN13: 9780688117955
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

a must-read...

Mike Kelly does an incredibly thorough and fair job of exploring the events surrounding the police shooting of a black youth and how this incident transformed a "model" suburban town. As someone who grew up in Teaneck during the racial turmoil Kelly writes about, this book has special signficance for me. I recommend it to those looking to explore the complexities of race in America and how small-town institutions--the police, the clergy, and the local government--each play an important role in this issue. I especially recommend it to anyone from Teaneck because it paints a very accurate portrait of the town while offering some remarkable new insights.