Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
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$14.99
Publication Date: July 31st, 2001
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
ISBN:
9780060935931
Pages:
320
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Description
Why do so many African Americans—even comfortably middle-class ones—continue to see racism as a defining factor in their lives?
Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. In this book he dared to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected Black America. Losing the Race explores the three main components of this cultural virus: the cults of victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism that are making Black people their own worst enemies in the struggle for success. With Losing the Race, a bold new voice rises among Black intellectuals.