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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steele, Shelby, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Discrimination--United States.

Discrimination.

Minorities--United States--Social conditions.

Minorities.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Social policy.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Basic Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 pr

Contents:

Contents; Chapter 1: The Great Divide; Chapter 2: A Collision; Chapter 3: Hypocrisy; Chapter 4: The Moral Asymmetry of Hypocrisy; Chapter 5: The Compounding of Hypocrisy; Chapter 6: Characterological Evil; Chapter 7: "The Battle of Algiers"; Chapter 7: "The Battle of Algiers"; Chapter 8: No Past, No Future; Chapter 9: America's"Characterological Evil"; Chapter 10: The Denouement; Chapter 11: After Evil, "The Good"; Chapter 12: The New Liberalism; Chapter: 13: Dissociation; Chapter 14: Relativism and Anti-Americanism; Chapter 15: The Culture; Chapter 16: Conservatism

Chapter 17: A Politics of IdealismChapter 18: Liberalism Is Beautiful, but Conservatism Is Freedom

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-465-04055-1