The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment, and the Assault on Truth and Justice - Hardcover

Collier, Peter; Horowitz, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761509429 ISBN 13: 9780761509424

Publisher: Prima Lifestyles, 1997

Synopsis

This collection of provocative essays, edited by bestselling authors Peter Collier and David Horowitz, explores how Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society is being undermined by black separatists and others who profit from the cynical exploitation of racial pride. The writers expose the underside of this new Afrocentrism—the crackpot theories, the bullying of dissent, the naked appeals to violence. Three themes emerge:
· Political trials—how the notorious cases of O.J. Simpson, Philadelphia's convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, and others have muddied our sense of truth, justice, and reason
· Afro-fascism—how some influential black leaders such as Louis Farrakhan have fueled a separatist movement that seems to feed on the hatred of Jews, Koreans, and whites
· The new racism—how racial pride, taken to its destructive extreme on the streets and in the schools of America, is leading to a society of bitter divisions.
Academic partisans have rewritten the textbooks to enshrine Afrocentric orthodoxy inside Ivy League walls; politically correct media reports have ignored the troubling implications. The Race Card is a cogent, compelling, and long-needed call for a return to reason.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Collier and David Horowitz are nationally known writers, editors, and political commentators whose intellectual development arcs from early, influential support for the Black Panther movement to the forefront of neoconservatism. They operate the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture and publish the magazine Heterodoxy, in which these essays first appeared. They are the authors of Destructive Generation, and the bestselling political biographies The Kennedys, The Rockefellers, and The Fords. David Horowitz's memoirs, Radical Son, has recently been published by The Free Press.

Review:

Essays edited by Collier and Horowitz explore how black separatists and others are attacking King's dream of a color-blind society. 'Afrocentrism' is fueling a separatist movement fed on hatred of others: that's the major theme which evolves from this collection, written by academics who analyze the situation. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0761509429
• ISBN 13: 9780761509424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240