Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza is a comprehensive inquiry into the history, nature and meaning of racism. D'Souza's work examines how there is little agreement about what racism is, where it comes from and whether it can ever be eliminated. This book explore these questions while raising some controversial issues of its own.
About the Author
Dinesh D’Souza has had a twenty-five-year career as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D’Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been named one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers by the New York Times Magazine, and Newsweek cited him as one of the country’s most prominent Asian-Americans.
Table of Contents
The white man's burden : the collapse of liberal hope -- Ignoble savages : the origins of racism -- An American dilemma : was slavery a racist institution? -- The invention of prejudice : the rise of liberal antiracism -- A dream deferred : who betrayed Martin Luther King, Jr.? -- The race merchants : how civil rights became a profession -- Is America a racist society? : the problem of rational discrimination -- Institutional racism and double standards : racial preferences and their consequences -- Is Eurocentrism a racist concept? : the search for an African Shakespeare -- Bigotry in black and white : can African Americans be racist? -- The content of our chromosomes : race and the IQ debate -- Uncle Tom's dilemma : pathologies of black culture -- The end of racism : a new vision for a multiracial society.