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Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?

25 Arguments That Won't Go Away

Author: Keith Boykin  

Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?
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Some arguments about race refuse to go away. It's time, once and for all, to shatter them.

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Some arguments about race refuse to go away. It's time, once and for all, to shatter them.

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The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely. They're all designed to distract society from racial justice, but now we have the tools to debunk them.

With a mixture of personal experience, reportage, and extensive research, Keith Boykin takes a wrecking ball to twenty-five of the most widespread deceptions about race, such as:

The Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery

 Affirmative action is reverse discrimination

* Critical Race Theory is indoctrinating children to hate one another

and shows us how to refute lies, myths, and misinformation with history, knowledge, and truth.

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Critic Reviews

"A clarifying set of arguments about Black lives past and present."--Kirkus
"Boykin's approach underscores the pervasive role race plays in America and how and why anti-Blackness and systemic racism persist...Readers seeking books in Black Studies, civil rights, and issues of discrimination will find this one thought-provoking and crucial to understanding and dismantling the anti-Black consciousness that endures in American society."--Booklist

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About the Author

Keith Boykin is a TV and film producer, national political commentator, New York Times best-selling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Keith has taught at American University in Washington, D.C., the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and City College of New York. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition and a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of six books. Boykin was a co-host of the BET talk show My Two Cents, starred on the Showtime reality television series American Candidate, worked as an associate producer of the film Dirty Laundry, and has appeared on numerous TV shows, including BET s Being Mary Jane. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Product Details

Publisher
PublicAffairs,U.S.
Published
29th February 2024
Pages
288
ISBN
9781541703315

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