{"id":682,"date":"2011-07-09T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T12:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=682"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:40:05","slug":"winning-the-race-john-mcwhorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/07\/09\/winning-the-race-john-mcwhorter\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning the Race. John McWhorter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/McWhorter2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-683\" title=\"John McWhorter\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/McWhorter2.jpg\" alt=\"John McWhorter\" width=\"49\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America.\u00a0John McWhorter. Gotham, 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 22, 2009<\/p>\n<p>John McWhorter\u2019s\u00a0<em>Winning the Race<\/em> has a strong sociological approach to the issues of black America, surveying the history of the development of the inner cities and the welfare system, leading to the dependence that later found expression in affirmative action and racial preferences. My background being more literary in nature, I do not have the grounding for assessing McWhorter\u2019s sociological arguments and data and will focus on his discussion of racial preference and its dynamics, of which I have personal experience, on the ground shall we say, and extensive knowledge and interest&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now available in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays<\/em><br \/>\nForthcoming, September, 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html\">https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McWhorter\u2019s Winning the Race has a strong sociological approach to the issues of black America, surveying the history of the development of the inner cities and the welfare system, leading to the dependence that later found expression in affirmative action and racial preferences. <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/07\/09\/winning-the-race-john-mcwhorter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[338,280,414,415,412,278,417,418,416,413],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-in-america","tag-affirmative-action","tag-black","tag-crisis","tag-inner-cities","tag-john-mcwhorter","tag-race","tag-racial-preferences","tag-therapeutic-alienation","tag-welfare","tag-winning-the-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}