Race Experts How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution |
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| Author:
| Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-2759-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.00 |
Book Description:
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Controversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem, and uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of our thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn carefully examines the teachings of 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. This sobering analysis illuminates how far...
More DescriptionControversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem, and uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of our thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn carefully examines the teachings of 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. This sobering analysis illuminates how far away we are from the issues that deserve our attention.