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-...

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Main Author:	McWhorter, John H. 1965- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Gotham Books 2006
Edition:	1. printing
Subjects:	Schwarze. USA Wirtschaft African Americans > Social conditions > 1975- African Americans > Psychology Alienation (Social psychology) > United States Inner cities > United States African Americans > Economic conditions Wirtschaftliche Lage Schwarze Ethnische Beziehungen Soziale Situation USA United States > Race relations
Online Access:	Table of contents
Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	VIII, 434 S.
ISBN:	1592401880