Shelby Steele: 4 books
A Bound Man
Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
In Shelby Steele's beautifully wrought and thoughtprovoking new book, A Bound Man, the award-winning and bestselling author of The Content of Our Character attests that Senator Barack Obama's groundbreaking quest for the highest office in the land is fast becoming a galvanizing occasion beyond mere...
White Guilt
How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1955 the murderers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted of their crime, undoubtedly because they were white. Forty years later, O. J. Simpson, whom many thought would be charged with murder by virtue of the DNA evidence against him, went free after his attorney portrayed him...
A Dream Deferred
The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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...
Shame
How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
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...