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Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

McWhorter, John

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1592402704
ISBN13: 9781592402700
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.94 Width: 4.92 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community.

Winning the Race examines the roots of the serious problems facing black Americans today--poverty, drugs, and high incarceration rates--and contends that none of the commonly accepted reasons can explain the decline of black communities since the end of segregation in the 1960s. Instead, McWhorter posits that a sense of victimhood and alienation that came to the fore during the civil rights era has persisted to the present day in black culture, even though most blacks today have never experienced the racism of the segregation era.

McWhorter traces the effects of this disempowering conception of black identity, from the validation of living permanently on welfare to gansta rap's glorification of irresponsibility and violence as a means of protest. He discusses particularly specious claims of racism, attacks the destructive posturing of black leaders and the hip-hop academics, and laments that a successful black person must be faced with charges of acting white. While acknowledging that racism still exists in America today, McWhorter argues that both blacks and whites must move past blaming racism for every challenge blacks face, and outlines the steps necessary for improving the future of black America.

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