Teaching Black and White

In the young adult novel Black and White by Volponi (2005), best friends Marcus and Eddie are high school seniors and stars of their basketball team. Marcus is African American and Eddie is Caucasian. With imminent college scholarships, it seems the NBA is a lock for "Black" and "White," as the kids in school call them. But having spent 0 they needed for ED Hardy Boots school on new basketball shoes, the boys use a gun for parking lot hold-ups to replace the money. During one of the

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