White Guilt: How Blacks And Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era - Rilegato

Steele, Shelby

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ISBN 10: 0060578629 ISBN 13: 9780060578626

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2006

Riassunto

A provocative new study of the past half-century of American race relations by the award-winning author of The Content of Our Character calls for a new culture of personal responsibility, a commitment to moral principles, and the elimination of white guilt and moral relativism.

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Recensione:

“There is no writer who deserves black America’s allegiance more than Shelby Steele... Steele’s writing is a marvel.” (John McWhorter, National Review)

“Piercing and personal... WHITE GUILT is a brilliant little essay, deserving of a large and appreciative audience.” (Washington Times)

“Thought provoking.” (Library Journal)

“Powerful, lucid and elegant...On questions of race in America--white guilt, black opportunism--[Steele] is our 21st century Socrates.” (Charles Johnson, author of MIDDLE PASSAGE, National Book Award winner)

“ Shelby Steele is America’s clearest thinker about America’s most difficult problem.” (George F. Will)

“A hard, critical look at affirmative action, self-serving white liberals and self-victimizing black leaders.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Prophet or polemicist, Steele is a graceful and often compelling literary stylist... [and] deserves a wide readership.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“As delightful a read as one can find on a book devoted to America’s historically most contentious topic.” (New York Post)

L'autore:

Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, and is a contributing editor at Harper's magazine. His many prizes and honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, an Emmy Award, a Writers Guild Award, and the National Humanities Medal.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060578629
• ISBN 13: 9780060578626
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 181