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12-03-2009
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John L Jackson Jr.
Racial Paranoia
The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness The New Reality of Race in America
John L Jackson Jr.
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The
Civil
War
put
an
end
to
slavery,
and
the
civil
rights
movement
put
an
end
to
legalized
segregation.
Crimes
motivated
by
racism
are
punished
with
particular
severity,
and
Americans
are
more
sensitive
than
ever
about
the
words
they
choose
when
talking
about
race.
And
yet
America
remains
divided
along
the
color
line.
Acclaimed
scholar
John
L.
Jackson,
Jr.,
identifies
a
new
paradigm
of
race
relations
that
has
emerged
in
the
wake
of
the
legal
victories
of
the
civil
rights
era:
racial
paranoia.
We
live
in
an
age
of
racial
equality
punctuated
by
galling
examples
of
ongoing
discrimination-from
the
federal
government's
inadequate
efforts
to
protect
the
predominantly
black
population
of
New
Orleans
to
Michael
Richards's
outrageous
outburst.
Not
surprisingly,
African-Americans
distrust
the
rhetoric
of
political
correctness,
and
see
instead
the
threat
of
racism
lurking
below
every
white
surface.
Conspiracy
theories
abound
and
racial
reconciliation
seems
near
to
impossible.
In
Racial
Paranoia,
Jackson
explains
how
this
paranoia
is
cultivated,
transferred,
and
exaggerated;
how
it
shapes
our
nation
and
undermines
the
goal
of
racial
equality;
and
what
can
be
done
to
fight it.
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