[ReviewAZON asin="0980258707"]This work is an examination of the black conservative phenomenon in the United States in contemporary times.
The author looks at the role black conservatives play in American politics and at their attempts to have a positive impact on the lives of black Americans, also known as “African Americans”, a term many black conservatives don’t accept. They say black people in the United States are just “Americans,” and may be “Black Americans” but not “African Americans.”
Subjects covered include perspectives black conservatives share on issues such as affirmative action, racism, poverty, self-reliance, welfare, drugs, crime and illegitimacy among blacks; the criminal justice system and how it affects blacks; and why black conservatives differ with other blacks on those issues.
It is also a critique of “The Bell Curve,” a book that has inflamed passions especially among blacks, and of the views some black conservatives have expressed on racial IQ differences which have fuelled debate on this highly explosive subject.
The author also looks at the policy and philosophical differences and at differences in perceptions between black conservatives and their brethren in the black community.
Why do black conservatives oppose affirmative action? Why do they support the Republican party? Why don’t they have much support in the black community? Why are they called traitors by some of their own people, fellow blacks?
Why do they say racism is no longer a major problem in the United States and that black people are their own number one problem and have only themselves to blame if they don’t succeed in life?
Those are just some of the subjects addressed in the book.
The author writes from personal experience after living and interacting with African Americans of all ideological stripes for more than 30 years.
His interest in Black America spans the ideological spectrum and covers other aspects of life including relations between Africans and African Americans.
He has written a book about those relations in which he also addresses the black conservative phenomenon in the United States.
Like all his others books, “Black Conservatives in the United States” is intended for members of the general public and the academic community.
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