Turning back
the retreat from racial justice in American thought and policy
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Word Count
69,000 words, Guess
Page Count
276 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21234917M
- ISBN-100807041106
- OCLC Control Number32702144
- OCLC Control Numberisbn_9780807041109
- Library of Congress Control Number95023053
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- LibraryThing443175
- Goodreads947016
Classifications
- LCCE185.615 .S744 1995
- DDC305.8/00973
Description
Turning Back traces social science writing on race relations over the past half-century. Beginning with Gunnar Myrdal's classic, An American Dilemma, Stephen Steinberg shows how mainstream social science placed a liberal gloss on racism and failed to champion civil rights. Not until the racial crisis of the 1960s was there a willingness to confront racism "in all of its hideous fullness," and to place responsibility for the nation's racial problems on major political and economic institutions. During the post-Civil Rights era the focus of blame has again shifted away from societal institutions onto blacks themselves. Turning Back is a trenchant critique of this "scholarship of backlash." Steinberg challenges liberals as well as conservatives, blacks as well as whites, who have fueled the backlash and provided a spurious intellectual cover for gutting affirmative action and other policies designed to alleviate racial inequalities.
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