A Dream Deferred - Review

Black Issues in Higher Education, Dec 24, 1998 by Michele N-K Collison, Cheryl D. Fields

A Dream Deferred by Shelby Steele, Harper Collins, $19.95, 185 pages.

In this new book, the author of the 1990 award-winning, The Content of Our Character, continues his argument that governmental policies such as affirmative action do more to harm than help African Americans. The self-described Black conservative asserts, "The great ingenuity of interventions like affirmative action has not been that they give Americans a way to identify with the struggle of Blacks, but that they give them a way to identify with racial virtuousness quite apart from Blacks." Hmmm ...