Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

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: racisms 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.