Sentences with phrase «white northerners»

After all, the tourism industry is often portrayed as one that helps mostly - white Northerners visit places where they pay mostly - brown inhabitants of southern climes to call them «sir» or «ma'am» — with the profits going largely to the mostly - wealthy shareholders of the cruise - line or resort chain.

Parallel biographies of two civil rights activists, a black southerner and a white northerner, lend unusual impact to this account of the 1961 bus integration protests.

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When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.