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050	0	0	_aE185.615 _b.D75 1995
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100	1		_aD'Souza, Dinesh, _d1961- _912487
245	1	4	_aThe end of racism : _bprinciples for a multiracial society / _cDinesh D'Souza.
260			_aNew York : _bFree Press, _cc1995.
300			_axi, 724 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tThe White Man's Burden: The Collapse of Liberal Hope -- _g2. _tIgnoble Savages: The Origins of Racism -- _g3. _tAn American Dilemma: Was Slavery a Racist Institution? -- _g4. _tThe Invention of Prejudice: The Rise of Liberal Antiracism -- _g5. _tA Dream Deferred: Who Betrayed Martin Luther King, Jr.? -- _g6. _tThe Race Merchants: How Civil Rights Became a Profession -- _g7. _tIs America a Racist Society? The Problem of Rational Discrimination -- _g8. _tInstitutional Racism and Double Standards: Racial Preferences and Their Consequences -- _g9. _tIs Eurocentrism a Racist Concept? The Search for an African Shakespeare -- _g10. _tBigotry in Black and White: Can African Americans Be Racist? -- _g11. _tThe Content of Our Chromosomes: Race and the IQ Debate -- _g12. _tUncle Tom's Dilemma: Pathologies of Black Culture -- _g13. _tThe End of Racism: A New Vision for a Multiracial Society.
520			_aThe End of Racism goes beyond familiar polemics to raise fundamental questions that no one else has asked: Is racial prejudice innate, or is it culturally acquired? Is it peculiar to the West, or is it found in all societies? What is the legacy of slavery, and what does America owe blacks as compensation for it? Did the civil rights movement succeed or fail in its attempt to overcome the legacy of segregation and racism? Is there such a thing as rational discrimination? Can persons of color be racist?
520	8		_aIs racism really the most serious problem facing black Americans today, or is it a declining phenomenon? If racism had a beginning, shouldn't it be possible to envision its end?
520	8		_a.
520	8		_aIn a scrupulous and balanced study, D'Souza shows that racism is a distinctively Western phenomenon, arising at about the time of the first European encounters with non-Western peoples, and he chronicles the political, cultural, and intellectual history of racism as well as the twentieth-century liberal crusade against it. D'Souza proactively traces the limitations of the civil rights movement to its flawed assumptions about the nature of racism.
520	8		_aHe argues that the American obsession with race is fueled by a civil rights establishment that has a vested interest in perpetuating black dependency, and he concludes that the generation that marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. may be too committed to the paradigm of racial struggle to see the possibility of progress. Perhaps, D'Souza suggests, like the Hebrews who were forced to wander in the desert for 40 years, that generation may have to pass away before their descendants can enter the promised land of freedom and equality. In the meantime, however, many race activists are preaching despair and poisoning the minds of a younger generation which in fact displays far less racial consciousness and bigotry than any other in American history.
520	8		_aThe End of Racism summons profound historical, moral, and practical arguments against the civil rights orthodoxy which holds that "race matters" and that therefore we have no choice but to institutionalize race as the basis for identity and public policy.
650		0	_aRacism _zUnited States. _93379
650		0	_aCultural pluralism _zUnited States. _912488
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations. _912489
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