White guilt : how blacks and whites together destroyed the promise of the civil rights era / Shelby Steele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steele, Shelby.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Psychological aspects.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

United States--Race relations--Psychological aspects.

Racism--United States--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 181 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2006]

Summary:

In this important new work, a distinguished race relations scholar argues that the age of white supremacy in power in the 1950s has given way to the age of white guilt, and neither has been good for African Americans.

Contents:

Part 1 The Story of White Guilt

1 A Dilemma 3

2 Fidelity 10

3 Infidelity 12

4 A Certain Knowledge 22

5 White Guilt 25

6 The New Consciousness 29

7 Race as Destiny 43

8 Responsibility in the Age of Racism 46

9 Responsibility as a Tool of Oppression 50

10 The Redistribution of Responsibility 57

11 Quitting 70

Part 2 An Expanding Guilt

12 White Rebels 79

13 Adolescents All 91

14 Stumbling into Power 95

15 The End of White Supremacy 98

16 A Coherence Gone Out of the World 107

Part 3 The Ways of Blindness

17 A Contingent Power 113

18 Blameless Poverty 117

19 White Blindness 123

20 White Blindness and Sambo 131

21 The Rage of Invisibility 135

22 Elitism as Virtue 143

23 "The New Man" 149

24 Self-destruction 154

Part 4 Dissociation and Culture

25 The Counterculture Establishment 167

26 A Culture War 171.

ISBN:

0060578629

OCLC:

61520451

Publisher Number:

9780060578626