Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America - Softcover

McWhorter, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060935936 ISBN 13: 9780060935931

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2001

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 07 Pages: 320 in Publisher: Harper Collins 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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Review:

Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, co-authors of "America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible" This brilliant, sparkling, effervescent book, brimming with life, is a joy to read. Blending personal history and social science evidence, McWhorter courageously confronts the problem of black academic underachievement -- the most important source of ongoing racial inequality today. "Losing the Race" is a stunning achievement that should not be ignored by anyone interested in solutions to the country's oldest and still greatest dilemma.

About the Author:

John McWhorter, associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of The Word on the Street. He lives in Oakland, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060935936
• ISBN 13: 9780060935931
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320