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FEATURED ARTICLE: CONVENIENTLY BLACK: Self-Delusion and the Racial Exploitation of African America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

John Baugh
John Baugh
Affiliation:
School of Education and Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
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Commentary on the Following Publications

McWhorter, John H.,Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. New York: Free Press, 2000, 285 pages, ISBN 0 684 83669 6, $24.00.

McWhorter, John H.,Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority. New York: Gotham Books, 2003, 264 pages, ISBN 1 59240 001 9, $25.00.

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STATE OF THE DISCOURSE
Information
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 113 - 126
Copyright
© 2005 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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Footnotes

I am especially grateful to Lawrence Bobo, Michael Dawson, and Charla Larrimore Baugh. They provided many insightful comments and sustained encouragement throughout the preparation of this essay. I have not uniformly followed their sage advice; all limitations herein are my own. I would also like to acknowledge, with appreciation, support for my own research that is cited in this essay that has been funded by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the National Science Foundation, Stanford University, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the United States Department of State, and Washington University.

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