ID: white kids do blackface play? was Re: Best novels on integration?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I recently bought a kids' book I'd never seen before - "Lions in the Way" by
>Bella Rodman, 1966. Looks interesting at the least. Which novels would you
>recommend that take place before 1970, whether they were written back then or
>not? Or, for that matter, books that deal with modern racist acts that you
>can
>hardly imagine these days

I read a book recently that I wish I could remember the name of. It was written
fairly recently, I believe (now that could be 15 years old, the way I think).
It was about a suburban school which as it happened was all white, and they
stage a play with black characters. _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, I think. AND NO ONE
THINKS THIS IS AT ALL ODD. They do the whole darned thing in blackface and no
one says boo. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, but that was just it.
No, not a historical novel or anything like that.

Anyone else remember this book? I may have exaggerated it a little, and I know
I don't remember the details as well as I usually do. I keep a list of books
read, but can't find it in there and think it was probably part of a stack of
things that never got entered.

--Helen