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Shelby Steele
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Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America, which won the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Steele's most recent book is White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. He is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. For his work on the PBS television documentary Seven Days in Bensonhurst, he was recognized with both an Emmy Award and a... Read full bio

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Movie Metropolis, October 30, 2012
...Another of the ludicrous analogies about Obama’s personality comes from a Senior Fellow at Hoover Institute, Dr. Shelby Steele. He discusses what he calls the “gratitude” factor in white people. He believes Obama was naturally born to bargaining,...
AlterNet.org, September 24, 2012
...a little bit? DD: Sure, now the argument, I agree with it, but it comes from the commentator Shelby Steele who is a scholar at the Hoover Institution. Basically what Shelby Steele says is that what made Obama so attractive and magnetic was not simply...
Common Dreams, September 20, 2012
...little bit? D’souza: Sure, now the argument, I agree with it, but it comes from the commentator Shelby Steele who is a scholar at the Hoover Institution. Basically what Shelby Steele says is that what made Obama so attractive and magnetic was not...
Boulder Daily Camera, August 31, 2012
...a sobering picture of the national debt and what it might portend for our future. Author and commentator Shelby Steele makes some provocative, pointed observations about the role race played in Obama's election. And footage of a town hall-style meeting...
Billings Gazette, August 31, 2012
...a sobering picture of the national debt and what it might portend for our future. Author and commentator Shelby Steele makes some provocative, pointed observations about the role race played in Obama’s election. And footage of a town hall-style meeting...
Times Union, August 31, 2012
...a sobering picture of the national debt and what it might portend for our future. Author and commentator Shelby Steele makes some provocative, pointed observations about the role race played in Obama's election. And footage of a town hall-style meeting...
Ventura County Star, August 30, 2012
...a sobering picture of the national debt and what it might portend for our future. Author and commentator Shelby Steele makes some provocative, pointed observations about the role race played in Obama's election. And footage of a town hall-style meeting...
Rockford Register Star, January 19, 2013
...force overtime. Kirsten Larson (16 points) and Anna Martensen were also in foul trouble. And Jessica Cerniglia and Shelby Steele are out with season-ending injuries. Adames scored on a putback for the first points of overtime and Davis also scored on a...
San Francisco Chronicle, January 15, 2013
...inquiry are expected any day. The standard by which the Badlands situation should be judged is simple, said Shelby Steele, a fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. "If the bar is rejecting people on the basis of race, then there...
Paragould Daily Press, January 11, 2013
...exhausted"? And name one black liberal thinker who inhabits the same intellectual universe as Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas or Larry Elder, just to name a few black intellectual giants of the right."... of gun zealots and...
American Enterprise Institute, January 10, 2013
...have measurably higher academic achievements, but also discredit the achievements of blacks and Hispanics. As Hoover Institution scholar Shelby Steele has written, "…one of the most troubling effects of racial preferences for blacks [and at UT,...
CNWeekly.com, January 9, 2013
...Davis Hanson, Charles Krauthammer, Michael Barone, Jonah Goldberg, Dan Henninger, Kim Strassel, Robert Samuelson, Dan Mitchell, John Hawkins, Shelby Steele, Brian Lamb, Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Hayak, Monty Pelerin...
The Patriot Post, January 8, 2013
...exhausted"? And name one black liberal thinker who inhabits the same intellectual universe as Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas or Larry Elder, just to name a few black intellectual giants of the right. "... of gun zealots and...
National Review, January 8, 2013
...exhausted? And name one black liberal thinker who inhabits the same intellectual universe as Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas, or Larry Elder, just to name a few black intellectual giants of the Right. . . . of gun zealots and...