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Shame how America's past sins have polarized our country

"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 ra...

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Main Author: Steele, Shelby (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
Subjects:
United States > Race relations.
Equality > United States.
Discrimination > United States.
Minorities > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Social policy.
United States > Politics and government.
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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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