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Race Experts
How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution
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Race Experts
How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- CHAPTER ONE The New Racial Etiquette: The Ritual of Racial Reprimand
- CHAPTER TWO Radical Chic and the Rise of a Politics of Therapy
- CHAPTER THREE The Encounter Group: A New Interracial Mode for Integration
- CHAPTER FOUR Racial Identity Theory: Groundwork for a Renewal of Suspicion
- CHAPTER FIVE Revolt against Repression: New Age Therapy from the Fringe to the Mainstream
- CHAPTER SIX A World of Endless Slights: Diversity Training and Its Illogical Consequences
- CHAPTER SEVEN In Perpetual Recovery: The Problem with Multicultural Education for Self-Esteem
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Credits