Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition
by John McWhorter
Why do so many black students still perform so badly in school? McWhorter concludes that racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that infects black America. He explores the main components of this virus with the aim of eradicating an epidemic and healing the community.
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Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares 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 antiintellectualism that are making blacks their own worst enemies in the struggle for success.
More angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more forward-looking than Stanley Crouch, McWhorter represents an original and provocative point of view. With Losing the Race, a bold new voice rises among black intellectuals.
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- Title Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
- Author John McWhorter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date 2001-07-31
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780060935931 / 0060935936
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.38 x 0.72 in (20.37 x 13.67 x 1.83 cm)
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- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Education, Self-defeating behavior
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001024092
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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