Dream Deferred The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

Name: Dream Deferred The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
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ISBN: 9780060931049

ISBN-10: 0060931043

ISBN-13: 9780060931049

Edition: 2000

Authors: Shelby Steele

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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 to Steele,1960s liberalism had as its first and all-consuming goal the expiation of America guilt rather than the careful development of true equality between the races. This "culture of preference" betrayed America's best principles in…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Preface


The Loneliness of the "Black Conservative"


Wrestling with Stigma


Liberal Bias and the Zone of Decency


The New Sovereignty