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Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution

Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution

Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 074252759X
ISBN13: 9780742527591
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Dec 17 2002
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.58
Language: English

Controversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem. Now available in paperback, it uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of our thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Since segregation's dismantling, intense anxiety has surrounded interracial encounters, and a movement has arisen to engineer social relations through the specification of elaborate codes of conduct. Diversity Training in business, multicultural education in schools, and cross-cultural psychotherapy have created a world of prescriptions. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn carefully examines the teachings of these self-appointed experts and offers a bold and searching analysis of the origins of their ideas in the human potential movement and the radical milieu of the 1960s.

Casting race primarily as an issue of etiquette or therapy, rather than of justice or equality, has had dire consequences for American life, diverting attention from the deeper problems of poverty, violence, and continued inequality and discrimination. In this sobering analysis, Race Experts illuminates how far away we are from the issues that deserve our attention.

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