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Turning Back : The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780807041215
- ISBN-10: 0807041211
- Publisher: Beacon Press
- Publish Date: January 2001
- Dimensions: 7.95 x 5.4 x 0.76 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 318
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