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001 2005023472
003 DLC
005 20070512082726.0
008 050818s2005 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005023472
020 $a1592401880 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781592401888 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm61361548
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043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE185.86$b.M427 2006
082 00 $a305.896/073$222
100 1 $aMcWhorter, John H.
245 10 $aWinning the race :$bbeyond the crisis in Black America /$cJohn McWhorter.
260 $aNew York :$bGotham Books,$c2006.
300 $aviii, 434 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 397-420) and index.
505 0 $a[Pt. 1]: Tracing it. The birth of the inner city : the conventional wisdom ; The birth of the inner city, part one : Indianapolis ; The birth of the inner city, part two : the saga ; Why are you talking about blacks on welfare? -- [Pt. 2]: Facing it. The meme of therapeutic alienation : defined by deviance ; What about black middle-class rage? ; What about the view from the ivory tower? -- [Pt. 3]: Erasing it. Therapeutic alienation meets hitting the books : "acting white" and Affirmative Action revisited ; The "hip-hop revolution" : therapeutic alienation on a rhythm track ; Therapeutic alienation as a plan of action? : New black leadership for New Negroes.
520 $aFour decades after the great victories of the Civil Rights Movement secured equal rights for African-Americans, black America is in crisis. Indeed, by most measurable standards, conditions for many blacks have grown worse since 1965: desperate poverty, incarceration rates, teenage pregnancy and out-of- wedlock births, and educational failures. For years, pundits have blamed these problems on forces outside the black community. But now, in a broad-ranging re-envisioning of the post-Civil Rights black American experience, author McWhorter argues that black America's current problems began with an unintended byproduct of the Civil Rights revolution, a crippling mindset of "therapeutic alienation." This wary stance toward mainstream American culture, although it is a legacy of racism in the past, continues to hold blacks back, and McWhorter traces the poisonous effects of this defeatist attitude. McWhorter puts forth a new vision of black leadership, arguing that both blacks and whites must abolish the culture of victimhood.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y1975-
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xPsychology.
650 0 $aAlienation (Social psychology)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aInner cities$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005023472.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0720/2005023472-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0720/2005023472-b.html