A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America – Four Essays on the Civil Rights Era, Affirmative Action, and the Politics of Racial Guilt

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America – Four Essays on the Civil Rights Era, Affirmative Action, and the Politics of Racial Guilt

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

Written by 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 order to give whites and America institutions an iconography of racial virtue they could use against the stigma of racial shame. In four densely argued essays, Steele takes on the familiar questions of affirmative action, multiculturalism, diversity, Afro-centrism, 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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Language Eng
Published 1998
ISBN 55548
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Shelby Steele writes contemporary fiction and has always been fascinated by character-driven stories. They hold a degree in English Literature and previously worked as an editor before transitioning to writing their own books. Shelby Steele lives with their spouse and a very vocal rescue cat.

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