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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

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John McWhorter (Author)

Contributors: John McWhorter (Author)

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BISAC categories: Social Science -> Cultural & Ethnic Studies -> African American & Black Studies

BISAC categories: Education -> Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects ->

BISAC categories: Social Science -> Discrimination (incl. Prejudice, Racism, Colorism, etc.) ->

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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.

ISBN-10: 0060935936
ISBN-13: 9780060935931
Author: McWhorter, John
Publisher: Harper Perennial

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ISBN-13: 9780060935931

ISBN-10: 0060935936

Publish Date: July 31, 2001

On Sale Date: November 14, 2014

Language: English

Pages: 320

Dimensions: 8.02 × 5.38 × 0.72 in

Weight: 0.56 lbs

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