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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b8542989.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Visions of Black-White Friendship -- Ch. 2. The Mystique of Sympathy -- Ch. 3. Because We Like Them: A Sampler -- Ch. 4. Caste Society/Opportunity Society (I): An Overview -- Ch. 5. Caste Society/Opportunity Society (II): Local Facts -- Ch. 6. Caste Society/Opportunity Society (III): The Problem of Change Rates -- Ch. 7. Invisible Woman: Friendship Dogma and the Disappearance of Joyce Ann Moore -- Ch. 8. Chicken George & Co. Versus History -- Ch. 9. The Issueless War and the Movement That Never Was -- Ch. 10. Clearing the Conscience (I): The Mystique of Can-Do -- Ch. 11. Clearing the Conscience (II): A Free Choice of Life -- Ch. 12. Conclusion: Life After Tolerance.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-214).".
- catalog extent "x, 214 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0871136198".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Atlantic Monthly Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog subject "305.8/00973 20".
- catalog subject "E185.615 .D46 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Visions of Black-White Friendship -- Ch. 2. The Mystique of Sympathy -- Ch. 3. Because We Like Them: A Sampler -- Ch. 4. Caste Society/Opportunity Society (I): An Overview -- Ch. 5. Caste Society/Opportunity Society (II): Local Facts -- Ch. 6. Caste Society/Opportunity Society (III): The Problem of Change Rates -- Ch. 7. Invisible Woman: Friendship Dogma and the Disappearance of Joyce Ann Moore -- Ch. 8. Chicken George & Co. Versus History -- Ch. 9. The Issueless War and the Movement That Never Was -- Ch. 10. Clearing the Conscience (I): The Mystique of Can-Do -- Ch. 11. Clearing the Conscience (II): A Free Choice of Life -- Ch. 12. Conclusion: Life After Tolerance.".
- catalog title "The trouble with friendship : why Americans can't think straight about race / Benjamin Demott.".
- catalog type "text".