Authentically Black : essays for the Black silent majority / John McWhorter.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McWhorter, John H.
Language:English
Published: New York : Gotham Books, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 21st century.
African Americans in popular culture.
Popular culture > United States.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Intellectual life > 21st century.
Physical Description:xix, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The new Black double consciousness
  • Profiling and "getting past race"
  • "What have you done for me lately?" : the reparations movement
  • The "can you find the stereotype?" game : Blacks on television
  • "Aren't you in favor of diversity?" : white guilt and university admissions
  • The unbearable lightness of "the 'N' word"
  • "We don't learn our history!"
  • Black academics and doing the right thing : "They don't care what you know till they know that you care"?
  • The new Black leadership.