The end of race politics : : arguments for a colorblind America

Title The end of race politics : : arguments for a colorblind America
Names Hughes, Coleman.
Length 1 online resource (audio (5 hours, 30 minutes))
Book Number DB119411
Title Status Active
Narrator Hughes, Coleman.
Language English
Annotation "An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called 'anti-racist' movement is driving us-ironically-toward a new kind of racism. As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents-who lived through segregation. The End of Race Politics is the culmination of his years-long search for an answer. Contemplative yet audacious, The End of Race Politics is necessary reading for anyone who questions the race orthodoxies of our time. Hughes argues for a return to the ideals that inspired the American Civil Rights movement, showing how our departure from the colorblind ideal has ushered in a new era of fear, paranoia, and resentment marked by draconian interpersonal etiquette, failed corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, and poisonous race-based policies that hurt the very people they intend to help. Hughes exposes the harmful side effects of Kendi-DiAngelo style antiracism, from programs that distribute emergency aid on the basis of race to revisionist versions of American history that hide the truth from the public. Through careful argument, Hughes dismantles harmful beliefs about race, proving that reverse racism will not atone for past wrongs and showing why race-based policies will lead only to the illusion of racial equity. By fixating on race, we lose sight of what it really means to be anti-racist. A racially just, colorblind society is possible. Hughes gives us the intellectual tools to make it happen." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Medium Digital Books
Audience Notes Male narrator. NLS/BPH
Unrated. NLS/BPD
Local Subject Unrated - UNRAT
Social sciences - 300
Politics & Government - 320
United States - History - 973
LC Subject Race
Post-racialism - United States
United States - Race relations
United States - Social policy - History - 21st century
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Call Number 305.800973 ANF
Released 2024
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2024.
Original Publication Reissue of: New York : Penguin Random House Audio, [2024] 9780593829721
Reissue of: New York : Penguin Random House Audio, [2024] 9780593829721.
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