Race Experts
How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2002
288 pages
978-1-4616-6610-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-6610-3 (9781461666103)
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Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Race Experts
How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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.
Content
Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Prologue
Chapter 3 The New Racial Etiquette: The Ritual of Racial Reprimand
Chapter 4 Radical Chic and the Rise of a Politics of Therapy
Chapter 5 The Encounter Group: A New Interracial Mode for Integration
Chapter 6 Racial Identity Theory: Groundwork for a Renewal of Suspicion
Chapter 7 Revolt against Repression: New Age Therapy from the Fringe to the Mainstream
Chapter 8 A World of Endless Slights: Diversity Training and its Illogical Consequences
Chapter 9 In Perpetual Recovery: The Problem with Multicultural Education for Self-Esteem
Chapter 10 Epilogue
Chapter 11 Notes
Chapter 12 Credits
Chapter 13 Index
Chapter 2 Prologue
Chapter 3 The New Racial Etiquette: The Ritual of Racial Reprimand
Chapter 4 Radical Chic and the Rise of a Politics of Therapy
Chapter 5 The Encounter Group: A New Interracial Mode for Integration
Chapter 6 Racial Identity Theory: Groundwork for a Renewal of Suspicion
Chapter 7 Revolt against Repression: New Age Therapy from the Fringe to the Mainstream
Chapter 8 A World of Endless Slights: Diversity Training and its Illogical Consequences
Chapter 9 In Perpetual Recovery: The Problem with Multicultural Education for Self-Esteem
Chapter 10 Epilogue
Chapter 11 Notes
Chapter 12 Credits
Chapter 13 Index
