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(0)Shelby Steele
Author
Language
English
Description
Since the civil rights victories of the 1960s, our governments and universities, eager to avoid charges of racism, have made a show of taking responsibility for the problems of black Americans. In doing so, Steele asserts, they have only further exploited blacks, viewing them always as victims, never as equals. This phenomenon, which he calls white guilt, is a way for whites to keep up appearances, to feel righteous, and to acquire an easy moral authority--all...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
vii, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Part memoir and part meditation on the failed efforts to achieve racial equality in America, Shame advances Shelby Steele's provocative argument that "new liberalism" has done more harm than good. Since the 1960s, overt racism against blacks is almost universally condemned, so much so that racism is no longer, by itself, a prohibitive barrier to black advancement. But African Americans remain at a disadvantage in American society, and Steele lays...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States the first one being segregation emerged from the civil rights era when the country was overtaken by a powerful impulse to redeem itself from racial shame. According...