Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
"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.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Subjects
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 reviewedTimes
1975-Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Losing the race: self-sabotage in Black America
2001, Perennial
in English
- 1st Perennial ed.
0060935936 9780060935931
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Losing the race: self-sabotage in Black America
2001, Perennial
in English
- 1st Perennial ed.
0060935936 9780060935931
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
Losing the race: self-sabotage in Black America
2000, Free Press
in English
0684836696 9780684836690
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-269) and index.
Classifications
External Links
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Source records
Scriblio MARC recordIthaca College Library MARC record
Internet Archive item record
Internet Archive item record
marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
Library of Congress MARC record
marc_nuls MARC record
Better World Books record
marc_columbia MARC record
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 1, 2008
- 15 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
July 11, 2024 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
March 17, 2024 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
March 7, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
July 28, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record |