TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Winning the race :beyond the crisis in Black America /
DA  - 2006.
CY  - New York :
AU  - McWhorter, John H.
CN  - E185.86
CN  - E185.86
PB  - Gotham Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2006.
ID  - 302383
KW  - African Americans
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Alienation (Social psychology)
KW  - Inner cities
KW  - African Americans
SN  - 1592401880 (alk. paper)
TI  - Winning the race :beyond the crisis in Black America /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005023472.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005023472.html
ER  -