{"product_id":"dream-deferred-the-second-betrayal-of-black-freedom-in-america-a","title":"Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America, A","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteele 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":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39323294990436,"sku":"9780060931049","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/dream-deferred-the-second-betrayal-of-black-freedom-in-america-a","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}