The End of Anger

by Cose, Ellis

• ISBN13: 9780061998553
• ISBN10: 0061998559
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-31
• Publisher: Ecco Pr

Summary

From a venerated and bestselling voice on American life comes a contemporary look at the decline of black rage; the demise of white guilt; and the intergenerational shifts in how blacks and whites view, and interact with, each other In the heady aftermath of President Obama's election, conventional wisdom suggested that the bitter, angry, and destructive elements of discrimination were ebbing at last and America was becoming a postracial nation. But with this dawning age that promised so much came shifting demographics and a newfound seat of rage in the polarizing Tea Party movement, even as black optimism gained ground, giving rise to questions about assumed truths concerning race in America. Combining the talents earned from a lifetime in journalism with the insights and thoughtfulness of a close observer of the American experience, renowned author Ellis Cose offers a fresh, original appraisal of our nation at this extraordinary time, tracking the diminishment of black anger and investigating the "generational shifting of the American mind." Weaving material from myriad interviews as well as two large and ambitious surveys that he conducted-one of black Harvard MBAs and the other of graduates of A Better Chance, a program offering elite educational opportunities to thousands of young people of color since 1963-Cose offers an invaluable portrait of contemporary America that attempts to make sense of what a people do when the dream, for some, is finally within reach as one historical era ends and another begins. In short, The End of Anger is not just about blacks but about America-its past and its hoped-for future-and may well be the most important book dealing with race to be published in recent decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A New Age and a New Generation	p. 1
Revising the Racial Contract	p. 27
Children of the Dream	p. 51
From the Hallowed Halls of Harvard	p. 73
Fighters, Dreamers, and Believers	p. 105
Hostiles, Neutrals, and Allies	p. 137
Reaching Across the Generational Divide	p. 159
A Place to Call Home	p. 185
Jail, Jobs, School, and Hope	p. 203
The End of Black Politics, Reconsidered	p. 227
The Future of Civil Rights	p. 251
Prejudice, Equality, and Our Capacity for Change	p. 273
Acknowledgments	p. 283
Appendix: Black Harvard MBAs Share their Rules for Success	p. 285
Index	p. 295
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