Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?
25 Arguments That Won't Go Away
The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely. They're all designed to distract society from racial justice, but now we have the tools to debunk them. With a mixture of personal experience, reportage, and extensive research, Keith Boykin takes a wrecking ball to twenty-five of the most widespread deceptions about race, such as: * The Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery * Affirmative action is reverse discrimination * Critical Race Theory is indoctrinating children to hate one another and shows us how to refute lies, myths, and misinformation with history, knowledge, and truth.
"The Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery!" "If you don't like it here, you should go back to Africa." "What about Black-on-Black crime?" "You're just playing the race card." There's a whole arsenal of popular "gotchas" that crop up again and again in discussions about race in America. According to the people who use them, Critical Race Theory is a dangerous threat that promotes racial hatred, and affirmative action is reverse discrimination. At the same time, they insist that racism ended with the Obama presidency, and Black people should be grateful for the privilege of living in the United States. In Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? Keith Boykin sets the record straight, explaining why such all-too-common assertions are simply not true. Effortlessly combining history, pop culture, and stories from his own life, Boykin lays out the truth about anti-Black racism and white supremacy in America. Racist lies and misbeliefs just don't seem to go away-but with the help of this book, they also won't go unchallenged"--
| Autor: | Boykin, Keith |
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| ISBN: | 9781541703315 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Little, Brown and Company |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.01.2024 |
| Untertitel: | 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away |
| Schlagworte: | Human Rights Human rights, civil rights POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights Relating to African American people SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination Social discrimination & inequality Social discrimination and equal treatment USA United States of America, USA |
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