{"product_id":"turning-back-isbn-9780807041215","title":"Turning Back","description":"Winner of the ASA, Oliver Cox Award for Anti-Racist Scholarship\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ethnic Myth\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAn American Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e to a new epilogue that dismantles the myth of black progress, \u003ci\u003eTurning Back\u003c\/i\u003e 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.Compelling. . . . \u003ci\u003eTurning Back\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that belongs in the hands of any person who believes in civil rights and human justice. We should read it, meditate on it, and reconsider our present conduct in light of its insights. --\u003ci\u003eTexas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Steinberg] argues with angry prose and an impressive grasp of the facts about the long list of betrayals of the black people by scholars and activists who proclaim themselves to be the friends of African-Americans. . . . [\u003ci\u003eTurning Back\u003c\/i\u003e] is strong medicine.\" --Robert F. Drinan, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A very important, rich and thoughtful book.\" --Adolph Reed, Jr., \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most important books on race and society to appear in the last decade.\" --Michael Eric Dyson, author of \u003ci\u003eI May Not Get There with You\u003c\/i\u003eStephen 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Ethnic Myth\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303446728933,"sku":"NP9780807041215","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807041215.jpg?v=1767743042","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/turning-back-isbn-9780807041215","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}