White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (P.S.) - Softcover

Steele, Shelby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060578637 ISBN 13: 9780060578633

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2007

Synopsis

In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt--and neither has been good for African Americans.

Through articulate analysis and engrossing recollections, acclaimed race relations scholar Shelby Steele sounds a powerful call for a new culture of personal responsibility.

About this title

Review:

"Prophet or polemicist, Steele is a graceful and often compelling literary stylist... [and] deserves a wide readership."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Piercing and personal... WHITE GUILT is a brilliant little essay, deserving of a large and appreciative audience."--Washington Times

" Shelby Steele is America's clearest thinker about America's most difficult problem."--George F. Will

"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

"There is no writer who deserves black America's allegiance more than Shelby Steele... Steele's writing is a marvel."--John McWhorter, National Review

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

"As delightful a read as one can find on a book devoted to America's historically most contentious topic."--New York Post

"Thought provoking."--Library Journal

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060578637
• ISBN 13: 9780060578633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208