Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, specializing in race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. Steele received the Bradley Prize (2006) for contributions to the study of race in America, and the National Humanities Medal (2004). In 1991, his work on the documentary Seven Days in Bensonhurst was recognized with an Emmy Award, a Writer’s Guild Award, and a San Francisco Film Festival Award. Steele received the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (1990) for The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. Other books: A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win (2007); White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (2006); and A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America. Steele writes extensively for major publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine and an in-demand speaker, and he has appeared on national 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.
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