Race experts

By Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Subjects: Multicultural education -- United States., Psychological aspects of Etiquette, Race awareness, United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects., Interpersonal relations -- United States., African Americans, Civil rights movements, united states, Civil rights movements, Multiculturalism, Etiquette, Multicultural education, Cross-cultural counseling, Interpersonal relations, Psychological aspects, African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century., African americans, civil rights, Etiquette -- United States -- Psychological aspects., Cross-cultural counseling -- United States., Multiculturalism -- United States., United States -- Race relations., Civil rights, Diversity in the workplace, History, United states, race relations, Diversity in the workplace -- United States., Race relations, Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Description: "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.