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

By Stephen Steinberg

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807041211
• ISBN13: 9780807041215
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"