Shame : how America's past sins have polarized our country / Shelby Steele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steele, Shelby, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Discrimination--United States.

Discrimination.

Minorities--United States--Social conditions.

Minorities.

Social conditions.

United States--Social policy.

Social policy.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Minorities--Social conditions.

Political science.

Physical Description:

vii, 198 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]

Summary:

"Part memoir and part meditation on the failed efforts to achieve racial equality in America, [this book] 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 the blame at the feet of white liberals"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Great Divide

A collision

Hypocrisy

The moral asymmetry of hypocrisy

The compounding of hypocrisy

Characterological evil

"The Battle of Algiers"

No past, no future

America's "characterological evil" : a pillar of identity

The denouement

After evil, "the good"

The new liberalism

Dissociation

Relativism and anti-Americanism

The culture

Conservatism : the new counterculture

A politics of idealism

Liberalism is beautiful, but conservatism is freedom.

ISBN:

9780465066971

0465066976

OCLC:

887851215