Losing the Race

<p><strong>Why do so many African Americans--even comfortably middle-class ones--continue to see racism as a defining factor in their lives?</strong></p><p>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. <em>Losing the Race</em> 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 <em>Losing the Race </em> a bold new voice rises among Black intellectuals.</p>