In 2000, I published Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. I argued that even as racism's power recedes, it can leave behind what psychologists call the victimization mind-set, which makes Black people feel that mainstream standards are too high for us to achieve.
Sixteen years later, Vance's Hillbilly Elegy became a huge best seller by arguing that what ails poor Appalachians is the result of both structural factors such as deindustrialization and also cultural factors.
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