Race experts
Subtitle: how racial etiquette, sensitivity training, and new age therapy hijacked the civil rights revolution
By: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Multiculturalism -- United States.; Diversity in the workplace -- United States.; Multicultural education -- United States.; Cross-cultural counseling -- United States.; Interpersonal relations -- United States.; Etiquette -- United States -- Psychological aspects.; United States -- Race relations.; United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects.
Description: "Controversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem." "Race Experts 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 analyzes 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE; title: The New Racial Etiquette: The Ritual of; title: Racial Reprimand; title: CHAPTER TWO; title: Radical Chic and the Rise of a Politics; title: of Therapy; title: CHAPTER THREE; title: The Encounter Group: A New Interracial; title: Mode for Integratio; title: CHAPTER FOUR; title: Racial IdentityTheory: Groundwork for; title: a Renewal of Suspicion; title: CHAPTER FIVE; title: Revolt against Repression: New Age; title: Therapy from the ringe to the Mainstream; title: CHAPTER SIX; title: A World of Endless Slights: Diversity; title: Training and Its Illogical Consequences; title: CHAPTER SEVEN; title: In Perpetual Recovery:The Problem with; title: Multicultural Education for Self-Esteem; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Credits; title: Index.