ISBN:
039304873X
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 267 S.
,
22 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Civil Rights Movement
;
Politieke correctheid
;
Rassenverhoudingen
;
Sensitivity-training
;
Geschichte
;
Psychologie
;
Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans Civil rights 20th century
;
History
;
Civil rights movements History 20th century
;
Cross-cultural counseling
;
Diversity in the workplace
;
Etiquette Psychological aspects
;
Interpersonal relations
;
Multicultural education
;
Multiculturalism
;
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
;
USA
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
Psychological aspects
;
USA
;
USA
;
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Abstract:
"Controversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem." "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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