03425cam a2200373 i 4500 9821554 CaAEU 20260128122449.0 210626t20212021nyu b 001 0 eng 2021024506 9780593423066 (hardcover) on1252762785 Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 SAN 201-3975 exclude LBSOR/DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF TOH OCO YDX JTH YUS CLU OCLCQ KYC JPL AEVC EN pcc n-us--- E185.86 .M4273 2021 McWhorter, John H., author. 26699 Woke racism : how a new religion has betrayed Black America / John McWhorter. New York, NY : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] ©2021 xv, 201 pages ; 24 cm Place of publication from publisher's Web site. Includes bibliographical references and index. What kind of people? — The new religion — What attracts people to this religion? — What's wrong with it being a religion? : it hurts Black people — Beyond "dismantling structures" : saving Black America for real — How do we work around them? "Acclaimed linguist and award-winning writer John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric. Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We're told read books and listen to music by people of color but that wearing certain clothes is "appropriation." We hear that being white automatically gives you privilege and that being Black makes you a victim. We want to speak up but fear we'll be seen as unwoke, or worse, labeled a racist. According to John McWhorter, the problem is that a well-meaning but pernicious form of antiracism has become, not a progressive ideology, but a religion--and one that's illogical, unreachable, and unintentionally neoracist. In Woke Racism, McWhorter reveals the workings of this new religion, from the original sin of "white privilege" and the weaponization of cancel culture to ban heretics, to the evangelical fervor of the "woke mob." He shows how this religion that claims to "dismantle racist structures" is actually harming his fellow Black Americans by infantilizing Black people, setting Black students up for failure, and passing policies that disproportionately damage Black communities. The new religion might be called "antiracism," but it features a racial essentialism that's barely distinguishable from racist arguments of the past. Fortunately for Black America, and for all of us, it's not too late to push back against woke racism. McWhorter shares scripts and encouragement with those trying to deprogram friends and family. And most importantly, he offers a roadmap to justice that actually will help, not hurt, Black America"-- Provided by publisher African Americans Social conditions 1975- 26700 Anti-racism United States. Race discrimination United States. Whites Attitudes United States. 26702 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2026-01-28 0 E185.615 MCH 2026-01-28 1 2026-01-28 1 SOON AVAILABLE 5313 5313