Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
- ISBN-10
- 0465040551
- ISBN-13
- 9780465040551
- Series
- Shame
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-24
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Author
- Shelby Steele
Description
The greatest barrier to racial equality today is not overt racism, Shelby Steele argues in [Title TK], but white liberals. Under the guise of benevolence, liberals today maintain their position of power over blacks by continuing to cast them as victims in need of saving. This ideology underlies liberal social policies from affirmative action to welfare, which actually exacerbate racial inequality rather than mitigating it. Drawing on empirical data as well as his own personal experience, Steele demonstrates that these policies have not only failed, but have made it impossible to address the problems that plague the modern black community, and have ensured that black Americans will never be truly equal to their white countrymen, in their own minds or in practice. Forthright and persuasive, [Title TK] offers an unflinching look at the failures of liberalism and a compelling case that a return to conservative principles is the only way forward for African Americans—and for the nation.
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- 2023-10-03
- 360 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton University Press
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