{"product_id":"a-dream-deferred-the-second-betrayal-of-black-freedom-in-america-9780060931049","title":"A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation's circumscribed public discourse on race.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Content of Our Character and White Guilt \u003c\/em\u003ecomes an essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Dream Deferred \u003c\/em\u003eShelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first one being segregation--emerged from the civil rights era when the country was overtaken by a powerful impulse to redeem itself from racial shame. According to Steele, 1960s liberalism had as its first and all-consuming goal the expiation of American guilt rather than the careful development of true equality between the races. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn four densely argued essays, Steele takes on the familiar questions of affirmative action, multiculturalism, diversity, Afro-centrism, group preferences, victimization--and what he deems to be the atavistic powers of race, ethnicity, and gender, the original causes of oppression. \u003cem\u003eA Dream Deferred \u003c\/em\u003eis an honest, courageous look at the perplexing dilemma of race and democracy in the United States--and what we might do to resolve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteele, Shelby:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eShelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, and is a contributing editor at \u003cem\u003eHarper\u003c\/em\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526751129874,"sku":"9780060931049","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b262419-1c49-46eb-ab69-984343ac30b2.jpg?v=1731282776","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-dream-deferred-the-second-betrayal-of-black-freedom-in-america-9780060931049","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}