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Shame : how America's past sins have polarized our country  Cover Image Book Book

Shame : how America's past sins have polarized our country / Shelby Steele.

Steele, Shelby, (author.).

Summary:

"Part memoir and part meditation on the failed efforts to achieve racial equality in America, [this book] advances Shelby Steele's provocative argument that 'new liberalism' has done more harm than good. Since the 1960s, overt racism against blacks is almost universally condemned, so much so that racism is no longer, by itself, a prohibitive barrier to black advancement. But African Americans remain at a disadvantage in American society, and Steele lays the blame at the feet of white liberals"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780465066971 (hardback) :
  • ISBN: 0465066976 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: vii, 198 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The Great Divide -- A collision -- Hypocrisy -- The moral asymmetry of hypocrisy -- The compounding of hypocrisy -- Characterological evil -- "The Battle of Algiers" -- No past, no future -- America's "characterological evil" : a pillar of identity -- The denouement -- After evil, "the good" -- The new liberalism -- Dissociation -- Relativism and anti-Americanism -- The culture -- Conservatism : the new counterculture -- A politics of idealism -- Liberalism is beautiful, but conservatism is freedom.
Subject: United States > Race relations.
Equality > United States.
Discrimination > United States.
Minorities > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Social policy.
United States > Politics and government.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch 305.8 S814s 2015 (Text) 33126024248712 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Independence Branch 305.8 S814s 2015 (Text) 33126024024865 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 04/26/2024


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