Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
by Eugene Robinson
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Publication Date: Oct 04, 2011
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Paperback, 254 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780767929967
Imprint: Anchor Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Instead of one black America, now there are four:
- a Mainstream middle-class majority with a full ownership stake in American society;
- a large, Abandoned minority with less hope of escaping poverty and dysfunction than at any time since Reconstruction’s crushing end;
- a small Transcendent elite with such enormous wealth, power, and influence that even white folks have to genuflect;
- and two newly Emergent groups—individuals of mixed-race heritage and communities of recent black immigrants—that make us wonder what "black" is even supposed to mean.
“In Disintegration, Eugene Robinson neatly explodes decades’ worth of lazy generalizations about race in America. At the same time, he raises new questions about community, invisibility, and the virtues and drawbacks of assimilation. An important book.” —Gwen Ifill
“Gene Robinson’s Disintegration is the first popular salvo in the Age of Obama regarding the delicate issues of class division, generation gap, and elite obsession in Black America. This painful conversation must continue—and we have Gene Robinson as a useful guide.” —Cornel West
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