The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2012
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"A tremendously important book--gracefully done, painfully perceptive.fearless in its honesty." --Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities "The most authoritative accounting I've seen of where our country stands in its unending quest to resolve the racial dilemma on which it was founded." --Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home "The End of Anger may be the defining work on America's new racial dynamics." --Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Ellis Cose is a venerated voice on American life. With The End of Anger, he offers readers a sharp and insightful contemporary look at the decline of black rage, the demise of white guilt, and the intergenerational shifts in how blacks and whites view and interact with each other. A new generation's take on race and rage, The End of Anger may be the most important book dealing with race to be published in the last several decades. This landmark study on American culture provides a vital framework for understanding our time: Fighters, Dreamers, and Believers: How the civil rights generation, their children, and their grandchildren developed starkly different views on race, anger, and opportunity in America. The Post-Racial Myth: An examination of Barack Obama's presidency--how it inspired unprecedented optimism in Black America while simultaneously exposing deep-seated racial anxiety in the nation. The Decline of Black Rage: Why the defining emotion of the civil rights struggle has been replaced by a new, more complex sense of hope, even in the face of persistent structural inequality. A New Black Middle Class: Through exclusive surveys of Harvard MBAs and other elite groups, Cose explores the successes and anxieties of a privileged class navigating a world of new possibilities.…
N° de ref. del artículo 00096525675
- Título
- The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage
- Autor
- Ellis Cose
- Editorial
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Año de publicación
- 2012
- Estado
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0061998567
- ISBN 13
- 9780061998560
“A tremendously important book—gracefully done, painfully perceptive…fearless in its honesty.”
—Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities
“The most authoritative accounting I’ve seen of where our country stands in its unending quest to resolve the racial dilemma on which it was founded.”
—Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home
“The End of Anger may be the defining work on America’s new racial dynamics.”
—Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
Ellis Cose is a venerated voice on American life. With The End of Anger, he offers readers a sharp and insightful contemporary look at the decline of black rage, the demise of white guilt, and the intergenerational shifts in how blacks and whites view and interact with each other. A new generation’s take on race and rage, The End of Anger may be the most important book dealing with race to be published in the last several decades.
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Ellis Cose was a longtime columnist and contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, the former chairman of the editorial board of the New York Daily News, and is the creator and director of Renewing American Democracy, an initiative of the University of Southern California, Northwestern, and Long Island University. He began his journalism career as a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and has been a contributor and press critic for Time magazine, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Journalism Education, and columnist and chief writer on management and workplace issues for USA Today. Cose has appeared on the Today show, Nightline, Dateline, ABC World News, Good Morning America, and a variety of other nationally televised and local programs. He has received fellowships or individual grants from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the University of California, among others, and has won numerous journalism awards. Cose is the author ofThe Short Life and Curious Death of FreeSpeech in America,Bone to Pick,The Envy of the World, the bestsellingThe Rage of a Privileged Class, and several other books.
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