{"product_id":"books-a-dream-deferred-by-shelby-steele","title":"A Dream Deferred","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation's circumscribed public discourse on race.\" --New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character and White Guilt comes an essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn A Dream Deferred Shelby 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. A Dream Deferred is 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":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53675294490897,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780060931049.jpg?v=1781539484","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-a-dream-deferred-by-shelby-steele","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}