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self-sabotage in Black America

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An edition of Losing the race (2000)

Losing the race

self-sabotage in Black America

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  • 2 Have read

"Is school a "white" thing? If not, then why do African-American students from comfortable middle-class backgrounds perform so badly in the classroom? What is it that prevents so many black college students in the humanities and social sciences from studying anything other than black subjects? Why do young black people, born decades after the heyday of the Civil Rights movement, see victimhood as the defining element of their existence?".

"McWhorter addresses these problems head-on, drawing on history, statistics, and his own life experiences. He shows that affirmative action in university admissions, indispensable 30 years ago, is today an obsolete policy that encourages the counterproductive ideologies of what he calls Separatism, Victimology, and Anti-intellectualism.

Most perniciously, it prevents black students from demonstrating the abilities our Civil Rights leaders gave them the opportunity to nurture, and it deprives them of the incentive to strive for the very top."--BOOK JACKET.

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Free Press
Language
English
Pages
285

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Psychology, Success, Self-defeating behavior, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Success, Social conditions, Education, African Americans, African americans, education, African americans, psychology, Success, psychological aspects, African americans, social conditions, New York Times reviewed

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Cover of: Losing the race
Losing the race: self-sabotage in Black America
2001, Perennial
in English - 1st Perennial ed.
Cover of: Losing the race
Losing the race: self-sabotage in Black America
2001, Perennial
in English - 1st Perennial ed.
Cover of: Losing the race
Losing the race: self-sabotage in Black America
2000, Free Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-269) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.896/073
Library of Congress
E185.625 .M38 2000, E 185.625 M38 2000, E185.625.M38 2000

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xv, 285 p. ;
Number of pages
285

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OL6782454M
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0684836696
LCCN
00031655
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44066918
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384672
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647319

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OL109622W

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