Shelby Steele was born on January 1,1946 and is an author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a Robert J and Marion E Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
16 Facts About Shelby Steele
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Shelby Steele specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.
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In 2004, Steele was awarded the National Medal of the Humanities.
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Shelby Steele was born in Phoenix, Illinois, a Cook County village off Chicago's South Side, to a black father and a white mother.
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Shelby Steele's paternal grandfather was born a slave in Kentucky.
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Shelby Steele met his wife, Rita Silverman, while they were students at Coe.
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Shelby Steele was active in the SCOPE Project, a voter registration project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and he met Rita at an activist meeting.
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Shelby Steele spent 20 years as an English professor at San Jose State University.
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Shelby Steele opposes policies such as affirmative action, which he considers to be unsuccessful liberal campaigns to promote equal opportunity for African Americans.
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Shelby Steele contends that blacks have been "twice betrayed:" first by slavery and oppression and then by group preferences mandated by the government, which discourage self-agency and personal responsibility in blacks.
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Shelby Steele believes that the use of victimization is the greatest hindrance for black Americans.
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Shelby Steele wrote a short book, A Bound Man: Why We are Excited about Obama and Why He Can't Win, published in December 2007.
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The book contained Shelby Steele's analysis of Barack Obama's character as a child born to a mixed couple who then had to grow as a black man.
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Shelby Steele is vulnerable to them because he has hungered for a transparent black identity much of his life.
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Shelby Steele has been critical of what he describes as the "world opinion" of Israel.
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Shelby Steele has opined that there is "poetic truth" concerning the death of Michael Brown.