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Why do so many African Americans—even comfortably middle-class ones—continue to see racism as a defining factor in their lives?
Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. In this book he dared to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected Black America. Losing the Race explores the three main components of this cultural virus: the cults of victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism that are making Black people their own worst enemies in the struggle for success. With Losing the Race, a bold new voice rises among Black intellectuals.
In Losing the Race, John McWhorter asserts a bold and controversial thesis: Racism’s ugly legacy has left contemporary Black identity so rooted in defeatism that Blacks have become their own worst enemies in the struggle for success.
Important reading for educators, counselors, and parents, Losing the Race challenges all of us to examine such issues as• the dismissal of school achievement as a “white thing”• the romanticization of ghetto life• the myth that heredity is the cause of black students’ poor scholastic performance on standardized tests• teacher bias• the view of what racism as the major cause of social crises afflicting African Americans• classroom attitudes• the portrayal of Blacks in the media• the ironic joys of underdoggism• the support of Ebonics as a separate languageYou may also like
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