Shelby Steele

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Shelby Steele Biography

Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1994.

Steele has written widely on race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations.

In 2006, Steele received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race in America. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 1991, his work on the documentary Seven Days in Bensonhurst was recognized with an Emmy Award and two awards for television documentary writing—the Writer's Guild Award and the San Francisco Film Festival Award.

Steele received the National Book Critic's Circle Award in 1990 in the general nonfiction category for his book The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (HarperCollins, 1998). Other books by Steele include Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country (Basic Books, 2015), A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win (Free Press, 2007), White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (HarperCollins, 2006) and A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America (HarperCollins, 1998).

Steele has written extensively for major publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is a contributing editor at Harper's magazine. He has also spoken before hundreds of groups and appeared on national current affairs news programs including Nightline and 60 Minutes.

Steele is a member of the National Association of Scholars, the national board of the American Academy for Liberal Education, the University Accreditation Association, and the national board at the Center for the New American Community at the Manhattan Institute.

Steele holds a PhD in English from the University of Utah, an MA in sociology from Southern Illinois University, and a BA in political science from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/04/2024.

Shelby Steele Speaking Topics

  • End of Oppression

  • Government Reform: How They Divide Rather Than Unify

Shelby Steele Videos

  • Shelby Steele on the Implications of Michael Brown's Tragic Death ...
    In a new documentary, Steele argues that the "story of victimization" was an attempt to "win power."------------------Subscribe to our YouTube ...
  • Shelby Steele: Race In America | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing
    The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic...
  • Shelby Steele On “How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our ...
    Recorded on January 25, 2018Shelby Steele, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and author of Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized ...

Shelby Steele Books

  • Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
    Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
  • A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
    A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
  • White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
    White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
  • A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
    A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
  • The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America
    The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America

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