Title: Winning the race
Description: Four 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.
Subjects: Inner cities, Race relations, Psychology, Rassenbeziehung, Economic conditions, Soziale Situation, Social conditions, Alienation (Social psychology), African Americans, Wirtschaftliche Lage, United states, race relations, Minorities, united states, African americans, social conditions, African americans, psychology, African americans, economic conditions
Places: United States, Schwarze, USA
Time periods: 1975-