Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution - Couverture souple

Lasch-Quinn, Elizabeth

 
9780742527591: Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 074252759X ISBN 13 : 9780742527591
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

Controversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem. Now available in paperback, it uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of our thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Since segregation's dismantling, intense anxiety has surrounded interracial encounters, and a movement has arisen to engineer social relations through the specification of elaborate codes of conduct. Diversity Training in business, multicultural education in schools, and cross-cultural psychotherapy have created a world of prescriptions. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn carefully examines the teachings of these self-appointed "experts" and offers a bold and searching analysis of the origins of their ideas in the human potential movement and the radical milieu of the 1960s. Casting race primarily as an issue of etiquette or therapy, rather than of justice or equality, has had dire consequences for American life, diverting attention from the deeper problems of poverty, violence, and continued inequality and discrimination. In this sobering analysis, Race Experts illuminates how far away we are from the issues that deserve our attention.

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À propos de l?auteur

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is the author of Black Neighbors (winner of the Berkshire Prize), professor of history at Syracuse University, and a frequent contributor to The New Republic. She lives in Syracuse, New York with her husband, Ray, and two daughters, Isabel and Honoré.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
074252759X
ISBN 13 
9780742527591
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780393048735: Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  039304873X ISBN 13 :  9780393048735
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2001
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