Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

About this book

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.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780060935931

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

July 31, 2001

Pages

320

Weight

9 oz

Subject

Social Science