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Shelby Steele
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Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s-when we came together as a nation to fight for equality and universal justice-remains unfulfilled. As Shelby Steele reveals in Shame, the roots of this impasse can be traced back to that decade of protest, when in the act of uncovering...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Steele attests that Senator Barack Obama's groundbreaking quest for the highest office in the land is fast becoming a galvanizing occasion beyond mere presidential politics, one that is forcing a national dialogue on the current state of race relations in America. Says Steele, poverty and inequality usually are the focus of such dialogues, but Obama's bid for so high an office pushes the conversation to a more abstract level...
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This eye-opening documentary that examines the facts that the news media missed in the infamous police incident in Ferguson, Missouri, including the long standing societal and governmental causes, too many of which are absent from mainstream discourse.