Authentically Black
The critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Losing the Race and The Power of BabelJohn McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the issue of race in America today. In Authentically Black McWhorter argues that although African-Americans stress hard work and initiative in private, they have assumed the mantle of victimhood in the eyes of the public and have thereby created a distorted meaning of what it is to be authentically black. McWhorter takes on this mentality and its debilitating implications—in topics ranging from rap music to the reparations movement, to the portrayal of African-Americans on te…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-21658-3
- EAN: 9781101216583
- Produktnummer: 19315256
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 283 KB
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John McWhorter is the author of the bestseller Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, and four other books. He is associate professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor to The City Journal and The New Republic. He has been profiled in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has appeared on Dateline NBC, Politically Incorrect, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
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