Losing the race : self-sabotage in Black America / John H. McWhorter ; [with a new afterword by the author].
McWhorter, John H.
2001
E185.625 .M38 2001 (Mapit)
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Title Losing the race : self-sabotage in Black America / John H. McWhorter ; [with a new afterword by the author].
Author McWhorter, John H.
Edition 1st Perennial ed.
ISBN 0060935936 (pbk.)
9780060935931 (pbk.)
Imprint New York : Perennial, 2001.
Language English
Description xv, 299 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number E185.625 .M38 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896/073
Summary A professor of linguistics paints a controversial portrait of defeatism and pessimism in black America that threatens to hold young African Americans back.
Note Originally published: New York : The Free Press, 2000.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-283) and index.
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Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.

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