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Shelby Steele will deliver the May 2006 Bradley lecture.
Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and the Wilson Quarterly, among many other publications. For his work on the television documentary “Seven Days in Bensonhurst” he was recognized with both an Emmy and a Writer’s Guild Award. In 2004, Steele received the National Humanities Medal.
In White Guilt: How Blacks & Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (HarperCollins; May 2, 2006; $24.95), thoughtful and provocative social critic Shelby Steele ups the ante with a concise, potentially incendiary exploration of the ways in which the last half-century of race relations has not only failed to abolish racial injustice and achieve equality, but has also spawned a moral void created by white guilt. In White Guilt, Steele calls for alternatives to this moral relativism, which he feels extends beyond race relations into all parts of American life. A timely polemic, the book is also a personal essay, drawing on Steele’s own experiences, from childhood to the present, as he has lived through the profound shift in our nation’s attitude toward race.
