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Shelby Steele, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, visited Warsaw and Krakow February 17-22. He spoke on race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative action in the United States.

Steele's most recent book is A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America. In A Dream Deferred, Steele argues that too much of what has been done since the Great Society in the name of black rights has far more to do with the moral redemption or self-satisfaction of whites than with any real improvement in the lives of blacks.

Steele received the National Book Critic's Circle Award in 1990 in the general nonfiction category for his book The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. He also has written extensively for major publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He also is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine.

• Shelby Steele's biography


• The Double Bind of Race and Guilt - an article by Shelby Steele


• Interviews with Shelby Steele:




• By David Gergen, editor of U.S. News & World Report


• By Peter Robinson, editor of Hoover Digest