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| | TIME.com: The Great Black and White Secret -- Mar. 16, 1981 -- Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Yet, even if all the familiar impediments to social integration were suddenly to be lifted from the country, few nowadays believe that fl and white would rush toward each other automatically, unhesitantly. |
 | | A similar scene occurs in Chester Himes'; If He Hollers Let Him Go Himes' hero, Bob Jones, takes his girlfriend to an exclusive restaurant, where the waiters stick them off in a corner and where other customers ogle the fl couple as if they were birds in a zoo. |
 | | Yet if one surveys the body of fl American writing from Reconstruction to the present, a remarkably consistent picture of fl America, of America itself, springs to life. |
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