{"product_id":"a-dream-deferred-the-second-betrayal-of-black-freedom-in-america","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","brand":"Shelby Steele","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51671095607602,"sku":"9780060931049","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780060931049.jpg?v=1787960096","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/a-dream-deferred-the-second-betrayal-of-black-freedom-in-america","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}