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Article: Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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One can learn from those with whom one disagrees. The back jacket of this book is filled with glowing praise from Leftist scholars of race - Roger Wilkins, Frances Fox Piven, Michael Eric Dyson, Howard Zinn, Derrick Bell, Mary Frances Berry - and rightly so, for Steinberg presents a Left view of sociology and race relations in this country. Nevertheless, some of Steinberg's insights are of interest to all. He reveals how social scientists have accepted and rejected various "paradigms," or theoretical models, for understanding the race issue in America.
Thus, early in this century most social scientists explained the gaps between blacks and whites in income, ...