Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

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.

Author: John McWhorter
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/31/2001
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.38w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780060935931
Language: English