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...Stauffer is currently working on a book called By the Love of Comrades: Interracial Friendships, Democratic Dreams and the Meaning of America, which uses the Aristotelian idea of friendship as a “test case for a virtuous society,” he said...
...three groups, in black, in Native American and in white traditions, define equality as one of the many meanings of friendship,” Stauffer said...
...When blacks and whites have the same political commitment, their friendships and their interactions are at equality,” Stauffer said...
...researching the book, Stauffer examined the course of American history, finding that “the Civil War-era and World War II are two moments in which interracial friendships and visions of interracial equality begin to proliferate,” he said...
...occur in some sort of a frontier space, whether in the wilderness, a whaling ship or a river raft in the nineteenth century”—an area outside of mainstream society that allows people to “live subversively,” Stauffer said...