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

Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth

 
9780393048735: Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution
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ISBN 10: 039304873X ISBN 13: 9780393048735
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2001

Sinopsis

This study looks at how America has capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of American thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Since the dismantling of segregation, 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. Lasch-Quinn looks at the teachings of the self-appointed "experts" and offers an analysis of the origins of their ideas. 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. "Race Experts" illuminates how far away the pundits are from the issues that deserve their attention.

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In clear, hard-hitting English, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn presents a well-reasoned and well-balanced analysis that exposes an insidious racket.--Eugene D. Genovese, author of A Consuming Fire [A]n essential primer, replete with eye-opening horror tales of political correctness.--Michael Meyers, Executive Director, New York Civil Rights Coalition [A]n unflinching look at the elaborated codes that govern racial exchanges and relations.--Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Democracy on Trial

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This study looks at how America has capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of American thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Since the dismantling of segregation, 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. Lasch-Quinn looks at the teachings of the self-appointed "experts" and offers an analysis of the origins of their ideas. 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. "Race Experts" illuminates how far away the pundits are from the issues that deserve their attention.

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
039304873X
ISBN 13 
9780393048735
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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9780742527591: Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  074252759X ISBN 13:  9780742527591
Editorial: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002
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