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Losing the race : self-sabotage in Black America John H. McWhorter ; [with a new afterword by the author]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 185.625 .M38 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWhorter, John H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Psychology.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.
- African Americans--Education.
- Success--Psychological aspects.
- Success.
- Self-defeating behavior.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 299 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st Perennial ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial, 2001.
- Summary:
- A professor of linguistics paints a controversial portrait of defeatism and pessimism in black America that threatens to hold young African Americans back.
- Contents:
- Cult of victimology
- Cult of separatism
- Cult of anti-intellectualism
- Roots of the cult of anti-intellectualism
- African-American self-sabotage in action: Affirmative-action debate
- African-American self-sabotage in action: Ebonics controversy
- How can we save the African-American race?
- Afterword
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : The Free Press, 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0060935936
- 9780060935931
- OCLC:
- 46366275
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- Contributor biographical information
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