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In his New York Times bestseller, Losing the Race, John McWhorter, a Berkeley linguistics professor, tried to make sense of why so many African-Americans continue to define themselves by race and examined what he calls the cult of Victimology, Separatism, and Anti-Intellectualism he has witnessed on America's college campuses. In Authentically Black, McWhorter broadens his lens in this penetrating and profound collection of essays that continue his exploration of what it means to be black in America today. According to McWhorter, nearly forty years after the Civil Rights Act, African-Americans in this country still remain "a race apart." He feels that modern black Americans have internalized a tacit message: "authentically black" people stress initiative in private but cloak the race in victimhood in public in order to protect black people from an ever-looming white backlash. McWhorter terms this phenomenon the "New Double Consciousness" in homage to W.E.B. Dubois's description of a different kind of double consciousness in blacks a century ago. It is within this context that McWhorter takes us on a guided tour through the race issues dominating our current discourse: racial profiling, getting past race, the reparations movement, black stereotypes in film and television, black leadership, diversity, affirmative action, the word nigger, and Cornel West's resignation from Harvard. With his fierce intelligence and fervent eloquence, John McWhorter makes a powerful case for the advancement of true racial equality. Authentically Black is a timely and important work about issues that must be addressed by blacks and whites alike. Authentically Black is a book for Americans of every racial, social, political, and economic persuasion.… (més)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 1 The New Black Double Consciousness 1 2 Profiling and "Getting Past Race" 36 3 "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" 64 4 The "Can You Find the Stereotype?" Game 104 5 "Aren't You in Favor of Diversity?" 138 6 The Unbearable Lightness of "The 'N' Word" 163 7 "We Don't Learn Our History!" 176 8 Black Academics and Doing the Right Thing 222 9 The New Black Leadership 236 Afterword 265
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I dedicate this book to the over one thousand African Americans who have given me their support for my public writings and statements on race since the publication of Losing the Race in the fall of 2000.
In letters, e-mails, phone calls, reviews and public encounters, from black businesspeople, teachers, schoolchildren, undergraduates, police officers, public officials, working people, authors, actors, mothers, fathers, seniors, and even prisoners, I have been confirmed in my opinion that there is a Black Silent Majority in America, committed to real progress but too seldom heard from.
We Will Rise, folks. For that matter, we already have.
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In his New York Times bestseller, Losing the Race, John McWhorter, a Berkeley linguistics professor, tried to make sense of why so many African-Americans continue to define themselves by race and examined what he calls the cult of Victimology, Separatism, and Anti-Intellectualism he has witnessed on America's college campuses. In Authentically Black, McWhorter broadens his lens in this penetrating and profound collection of essays that continue his exploration of what it means to be black in America today. According to McWhorter, nearly forty years after the Civil Rights Act, African-Americans in this country still remain "a race apart." He feels that modern black Americans have internalized a tacit message: "authentically black" people stress initiative in private but cloak the race in victimhood in public in order to protect black people from an ever-looming white backlash. McWhorter terms this phenomenon the "New Double Consciousness" in homage to W.E.B. Dubois's description of a different kind of double consciousness in blacks a century ago. It is within this context that McWhorter takes us on a guided tour through the race issues dominating our current discourse: racial profiling, getting past race, the reparations movement, black stereotypes in film and television, black leadership, diversity, affirmative action, the word nigger, and Cornel West's resignation from Harvard. With his fierce intelligence and fervent eloquence, John McWhorter makes a powerful case for the advancement of true racial equality. Authentically Black is a timely and important work about issues that must be addressed by blacks and whites alike. Authentically Black is a book for Americans of every racial, social, political, and economic persuasion.
Preface
1 The New Black Double Consciousness 1
2 Profiling and "Getting Past Race" 36
3 "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" 64
4 The "Can You Find the Stereotype?" Game 104
5 "Aren't You in Favor of Diversity?" 138
6 The Unbearable Lightness of "The 'N' Word" 163
7 "We Don't Learn Our History!" 176
8 Black Academics and Doing the Right Thing 222
9 The New Black Leadership 236
Afterword 265