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Winning the race : beyond the crisis in Black America
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- Creator
- John McWhorter
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Gotham Books, 2007
- Physical Details
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- viii, 434 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781592402700, 1592402704
- OCLC
- ocm77624821
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-420) and index.
- [Pt. 1]: Tracing it. The birth of the inner city : the conventional wisdom ; The birth of the inner city, part one : Indianapolis ; The birth of the inner city, part two : the saga ; Why are you talking about blacks on welfare? -- [Pt. 2]: Facing it. The meme of therapeutic alienation : defined by deviance ; What about black middle-class rage? ; What about the view from the ivory tower? -- [Pt. 3]: Erasing it. Therapeutic alienation meets hitting the books : "acting white" and Affirmative Action revisited ; The "hip-hop revolution" : therapeutic alienation on a rhythm track ; Therapeutic alienation as a plan of action? : New black leadership for new Negroes