The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?

by Ellis Cose

Overview

A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060925949
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/02/1994
Series:	Harper Perennial
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Ellis Cose was a longtime columnist and contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, the former chairman of the editorial board of the New York Daily News, and is the creator and director of Renewing American Democracy, an initiative of the University of Southern California, Northwestern, and Long Island University. He began his journalism career as a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and has been a contributor and press critic for Time magazine, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Journalism Education, and columnist and chief writer on management and workplace issues for USA Today. Cose has appeared on the Today show, Nightline, Dateline, ABC World News, Good Morning America, and a variety of other nationally televised and local programs. He has received fellowships or individual grants from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the University of California, among others, and has won numerous journalism awards. Cose is the author of The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America, Bone to Pick, The Envy of the World, the bestselling The Rage of a Privileged Class, and several other books.

 

Editorial Reviews

A disciplined, graceful exposition of a neglected aspect of the subject of race in America.

New York Times Book Review