| Details | | Publication Date: | 2001-10-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 267 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
RACE EXPERTS 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 analyzes 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.
Industry Reviews
"An original and impressive presentation that does much to illuminate the current racial situation."
Kirkus Reviews (06/15/2001)
''RACE EXPERTS is angry polemic. And because it is so polemical, the writers and activists Lasch-Quinn criticizes too often seem chosen because they're easy targets. Nor has she struggled enough to find real-life examples of the ways in which racism can play havoc with healthy emotional development. Still, RACE EXPERTS is the first book to link together America's two favorite conversations, the one about self-help and the one about race. There is enough sloppy thinking and posturing on both subjects to make this book an effective and necessary one."
New York Times Book Review - Alan Wolfe (12/09/2001)
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