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Shelby Steele

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in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

January 01, 1946

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Shelby Steele (born January 1, 1946) is an African American author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative action. In 1990, he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in the general nonfiction category for his book The Content of Our Character.
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Average rating: 4.2 · 4,357 ratings · 660 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era – A Race Relations Scholar's Meditation on Personal Responsibility 4.29 avg rating — 2,517 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country 4.25 avg rating — 733 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America – Essays on Identity and Social Justice 4.11 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 1990 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America – Four Essays on the Civil Rights Era, Affirmative Action, and the Politics of Racial Guilt 4.13 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win 3.18 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations – The Comprehensive Collection of Seminal Essays and Documents by Raymond A. Winbush, Christopher Hitchens (Contributor), Molefi Kete Asante (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Scholar: Autumn 1990 Vol 59No 4 by Shelby Steele, Jay Amberg (Goodreads Author), Richard A. Posner 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bill Moyers Journal: Shelby Steele on Obama / Kathleen Hall Jamieson by Bill Moyers (Actor), Shelby Steele (Actor), Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Actor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utne Reader: the Best of the Alternative Press No. 47, September / October 1991 by Eric - editor Utne, Cornel West, Shelby Steele 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Poetic truth—this assertion of a broad characteristic “truth” that invalidates actual truth—is contemporary liberalism’s greatest source of power. It is also liberalism’s most fundamental corruption.”
― Shelby Steele, Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country

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“It is also the formula that keeps black America underdeveloped even as we enjoy new freedom and a proliferation of opportunity. No worse fate could befall a group emerging from oppression than to find itself gripped by a militancy that sees justice in making others responsible for its advancement.”
― Shelby Steele, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

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“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
― Shelby Steele, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

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