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why Americans can't think straight about race

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An edition of The trouble with friendship (1995)

The trouble with friendship

why Americans can't think straight about race

  • 2 Want to read

In this provocative, insightful, and sure to be controversial work, eminent social critic Benjamin DeMott shows how black and white neoconservatism, the rise of the black middle class, and the imagery and rhetoric of racial amity promulgated by contemporary media are coalescing into a whole new orthodoxy - one that obscures continuing racial inequity and threatens to halt the further progress of African Americans.

DeMott examines a stunning range of cultural evidence - from Clinton oratory to popular cinema and television, to scapegoated welfare mothers, to some of today's most respected thinkers - to lay bear the thrust and assumptions of this new friendship orthodoxy, which maintains that racial problems can be solved simply by blacks and whites working together, one on one, to reconcile differences.

DeMott argues that such an appealing perspective is dangerous because it is so blatantly ahistorical, because it turns a blind eye to entrenched poverty, because it ignores the racism still alive in the land, and because of its real consequences. It distorts the public debate and absolves the body politic from the hard work that the civil rights movement began and that remains unfinished.

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English
Pages
214

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Cover of: The trouble with friendship
The trouble with friendship: why Americans can't think straight about race
1998, Yale University Press
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Cover of: The Trouble With Friendship
The Trouble With Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Race
January 1996, Atlantic Monthly Pr
Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition
Cover of: The trouble with friendship
The trouble with friendship: why Americans can't think straight about race
1995, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-214).
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1995.

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New Haven, CT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8/00973
Library of Congress
E185.615 .D46 1998, E185.615.D46 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
214 p. ;
Number of pages
214

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL701798M
Internet Archive
troublewithfrien00demo
ISBN 10
0300073941
LCCN
97050279
Library Thing
379852
Goodreads
1104743

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