Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
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| Management number | 232017895 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$4.64 | Model Number | 232017895 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0060935936 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0060935931 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Dimensions | 8.02 x 5.38 x 0.72 inches |
| Item Weight | 8.8 ounces |
| Print length | 320 pages |
| Publication date | July 31, 2001 |
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African American Studies
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