A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Shelby Steele
Bestselling author Shelby Steele offers a timely and controversial essay collection on the untold story behind today's polarized racial politics.
Summary
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I felt a familiar anger rise when the editor asked me over the phone to write about "the loneliness of a black conservative."
From the rear cover
From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes an essay collection that tells the untold story behind today's polarized racial politics. 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 American guilt rather than the careful development of true equality between the races. In four densely argued essays, Steele takes on the familiar questions of affirmative action, multiculturalism, diversity, Afrocentrism, group preferences, victimization -- and what he deems to be the atavistic powers of race, ethnicity, and gender, the original causes of oppression. A Dream Deferred is an honest, courageous look at the perplexing dilemma of race and democracy in the United States -- and what we might do to resolve it.
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- Title A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
- Author Shelby Steele
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-10-06
- ISBN 9780060931049 / 0060931043
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.55 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 1.40 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98018483
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
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