Author(s): Stephen Steinberg
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 318
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Date Published: 2001-01-16
Dimensions: 137.16 x 201.93 x 19.3mm
Publication City/Country: Boston, MA, United States
Edition: 3rd ed.
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Winner of the ASA, Oliver Cox Award for Anti-Racist Scholarship From the author of The Ethnic Myth comes this cogent analysis of how social science has placed a liberal gloss on racism and failed to champion civil rights. From a powerful critique of Gunnar Myrdal's classic An American Dilemma to a new epilogue that dismantles the myth of black progress, Turning Back offers a challenge to liberals as well as conservatives, blacks as well as whites, who have fueled the current backlash by providing a spurious intellectual cover for gutting affirmative action and other policies designed to advance the cause of racial justice.