White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era – A Race Relations Scholar's Meditation on Personal Responsibility (P.S.)
Shelby Steele’s White Guilt is a meditation on race relations and the promise of the civil rights era. Examining Black and white Americans together, Steele focuses on personal responsibility and considers how racial guilt and collective choices shaped the era’s legacy.
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In White Guilt, Shelby Steele examines the promise of the civil rights era and the forces that, in his view, contributed to its destruction.
Presented as a race relations scholar’s meditation, the book considers the relationship between Black and white Americans during a pivotal period in American history.
Its central focus is personal responsibility and the ways racial guilt may influence public understanding, relationships, and responses to the unfinished questions of civil rights.
The book offers a work of social commentary on race, history, and the consequences of collective choices.
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