Description
| Product ID: | 9781469646602 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition |
| Subtitle: | Race and Redemption in the New South |
| Authors: | Author: Osha Gray Davidson |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Films, cinema, Films, cinema, History of the Americas, Ethnic studies, Civics and citizenship, History of the Americas, Ethnic studies, Civil rights & citizenship, North Carolina, c 1960 to c 1970 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating C.P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. Now a major motion picture, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South''s rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Now a major motion picture, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. View the movie trailer here: https://youtu.be/eKM6fSTs-A0 |
| Imprint Name: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Publisher Name: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-02-28 |
