The End of Anger

by Cose, Ellis

• ISBN13: 9780061998560
• ISBN10: 0061998567
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-08
• Publisher: Ecco Pr

Summary

With The Rage of a Privileged Class, Ellis Cose, a venerated and bestselling voice on American life, offered an eye-opening look at the simmering anger of the black middle class. Some sixteen years later, Cose has discovered this group is much less angry and even optimistic about its future, despite a flagging economy and a deeply divided body politic. With The End of Anger, Cose examines these new attitudes as well as the decline of white guilt and the intergenerational shifts in how blacks and whites view and interact with each other. Weaving material from interviews and two large and ambitious surveys, Cose-an esteemed journalist-offers an invaluable portrait of contemporary America, one that attempts to make sense of what a people do when the American dream, for some, is finally within reach, as one historical era ends and another begins. The End of Angeris an indispensable exploration of how mores change from one generation to the next and may well be the most important book dealing with race and class to be published in recent decades.

Author Biography

Ellis Cose is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Rage of a Privileged Class. A former contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, his writing has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Time magazine, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the New York Daily News, among other publications. Visit him at www.elliscose.com.

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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