The Resource Winning the race : beyond the crisis in Black America, John McWhorter
Winning the race : beyond the crisis in Black America, John McWhorter
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- Summary
- Four decades after the great victories of the Civil Rights Movement secured equal rights for African-Americans, black America is in crisis. Indeed, by most measurable standards, conditions for many blacks have grown worse since 1965: desperate poverty, incarceration rates, teenage pregnancy and out-of- wedlock births, and educational failures. For years, pundits have blamed these problems on forces outside the black community. But now, in a broad-ranging re-envisioning of the post-Civil Rights black American experience, author McWhorter argues that black America's current problems began with an unintended byproduct of the Civil Rights revolution, a crippling mindset of "therapeutic alienation." This wary stance toward mainstream American culture, although it is a legacy of racism in the past, continues to hold blacks back, and McWhorter traces the poisonous effects of this defeatist attitude. McWhorter puts forth a new vision of black leadership, arguing that both blacks and whites must abolish the culture of victimhood--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Winning the race : beyond the crisis in Black America
- Title
- Winning the race
- Title remainder
- beyond the crisis in Black America
- Statement of responsibility
- John McWhorter
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Four decades after the great victories of the Civil Rights Movement secured equal rights for African-Americans, black America is in crisis. Indeed, by most measurable standards, conditions for many blacks have grown worse since 1965: desperate poverty, incarceration rates, teenage pregnancy and out-of- wedlock births, and educational failures. For years, pundits have blamed these problems on forces outside the black community. But now, in a broad-ranging re-envisioning of the post-Civil Rights black American experience, author McWhorter argues that black America's current problems began with an unintended byproduct of the Civil Rights revolution, a crippling mindset of "therapeutic alienation." This wary stance toward mainstream American culture, although it is a legacy of racism in the past, continues to hold blacks back, and McWhorter traces the poisonous effects of this defeatist attitude. McWhorter puts forth a new vision of black leadership, arguing that both blacks and whites must abolish the culture of victimhood--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McWhorter, John H
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.86
- LC item number
- .M427 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African Americans
- African Americans
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Inner cities
- African Americans
- United States
- Label
- Winning the race : beyond the crisis in Black America, John McWhorter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-420) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 434 pages
- Isbn
- 9781592401888
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005023472
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9781592401888 (hardcover)
- System control number
- 07-B1581
- Label
- Winning the race : beyond the crisis in Black America, John McWhorter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-420) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 434 pages
- Isbn
- 9781592401888
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005023472
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9781592401888 (hardcover)
- System control number
- 07-B1581
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