@article{302383,
      author = {McWhorter, John H.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/302383},
      title = {Winning the race : beyond the crisis in Black America /},
      publisher = {Gotham Books,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {302383},
      pages = {viii, 434 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2006},
}