Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Turning Back is a challenge to conservatives and liberals alike who have fueled the backlash against policies designed to alleviate racial inequality.
"Committed, anti-racist scholarship. . . . A useful contribution to clear thinking about race."
--George M. Fredrickson, The New York Review of Books
Synopsis
Turning Back is a challenge to conservatives and liberals alike who have fueled the backlash against policies designed to alleviate racial inequality.
"Committed, anti-racist scholarship. . . . A useful contribution to clear thinking about race."
--George M. Fredrickson, The New York Review of Books
About the Author
Stephen Steinberg teaches in the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College and the Ph.D. Program in Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Ethnic Myth.