Losing The Race
Losing The Race
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.
- Format: Paperback | 320 pages
- Dimensions: 135 x 201 x 20mm | 244g
- Publication date: 01 Aug 2001
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint: HarperPaperbacks
- Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
- Language: English
- ISBN10: 0060935936
- ISBN13: 9780060935931
- Bestsellers rank: 374,741