Turning Back

Winner of the ASA, Oliver Cox Award for Anti-Racist Scholarship From the author ofThe Ethnic Mythcomes 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 classicAn American Dilemmato a new epilogue that dismantles the myth of black progress,Turning Backoffers 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.

Stephen Steinberg, author of The Ethnic Myth, teaches in the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College and the Ph.D. program in sociology at the Graduate Center at City University of New York.