Losing the Race

Why do so many black students still perform so badly in school? McWhorter concludes that racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that infects black America. He explores the main components of this virus with the aim of eradicating an epidemic and healing the community.

John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley

Preface

vii

The Cult of Victimology

1

(49)

The Cult of Separatism

50

(32)

The Cult of Anti-intellectualism

82

(55)

The Roots of the Cult of Anti-intellectualism

137

(27)

African-American Self-Sabotage in Action: The Affirmative-Action Debate

164

(20)

African-American Self-Sabotage in Action: The Ebonics Controversy

184

(28)

How Can We Save the African-American Race?

212

(51)

Afterword

263

(14)

Notes

277

(8)

Acknowledgments

285

(2)

Index

287

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