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Baker and “Therapeutic Alienation”

Although John McWhorter doesn’t specifically name Houston Baker in his sizzling new book Winning the Race, Baker’s astounding view of life for black Americans is a perfect illustration of what McWhorter calls “the meme of therapeutic alienation.”

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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