White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

Title: White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
Author: Shelby Steele
ISBN: 9780060578633
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 181
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"Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison's or Richard Wright's best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt--and neither has been good for African Americans.

Through articulate analysis and engrossing recollections, acclaimed race relations scholar Shelby Steele sounds a powerful call for a new culture of personal responsibility.