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Shame
how America's past sins have polarized our country
by Shelby Steele
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"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"--
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Politics and government, Race relations, Equality, Social conditions, Discrimination, Social policy, Minorities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, United states, politics and government, 1989-, United states, social policy, United states, civilization, 1945-, Minorities, united states, social conditions, United states, race relations, Political sciencePlaces
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Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
Feb 02, 2016, Brilliance Audio
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1501209736 9781501209734
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Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
2015, Basic Books
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0465040551 9780465040551
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Table of Contents
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.
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