Description: A powerful book that is sure to touch young readers everywhere, Dreaming in Color, Living in Black and White tells of "Americans who vary in age from teen to senior citizen who recount pivotal, painful experiences from their youth that exposed them to the continuing reality of racism in 20th-century America. Their occupations include church minister, English professor, death-row inmate, school librarian, journalist, psychologist, and college student....An epithet shatters an interracial childhood friendship; a white teacher disparages the abilities of two African-American students; an 11-year-old boy is arrested and brutalized by two sheriffs after robbing a white boy; a shy, outcast sixth grader strikes out at the racism around her; and a Yale student with limited finances justifies shoplifting books from the college bookstore. These autobiographical stories resound with anguish and present varied responses to each racial encounter: anger, longing, bitterness, and/or pride".

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