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Turning Back|Stephen Steinberg

Turning Back : The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy

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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.

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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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