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.
- ISBN10 0807041114
- ISBN13 9780807041116
- Publish Date 1 September 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 July 2002
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Beacon Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English