Shelby Steele

This is Steele's homepage at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is a research fellow. There, you'll find a photo of Steele, a biographical sketch, and some links.

This page entitled “The Ethics of Affirmative Action” from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics contains some biographical information about Steele.

Here's Steele's biography from the PBS show Frontline's site. There, you'll find some information about Steele's relationship with that program, including the Emmy Award he won, and some links.

Would you like to narrow a research topic regarding affirmative action in the U.S.? This Google.com directory should give you plenty of ideas.

Here's an essay making an argument that Steele should be president of Harvard University. What do you make of the tone of this piece? What is “VDARE”?

This page has Steele's citation for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Which of the other authors do you recognize on this page? How would you go about finding out more about them?

Read this detailed review of the Emmy-winning documentary film Seven Days in Bensonhurst, which Steele wrote and narrated. Does your library have a copy? If not, how could you go about getting one?

Ready for some more of Steele's writing? Ok, here's an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal called “White Guilt = Black Power.” This page also features a forum for discussion of the piece.

Here's an essay from New Perspectives Quarterly called “Booker T. Washington Was Right.” Read the essay and answer this question: Right about what?

David Gergen of the PBS show Frontline conducted this interview with Steele shortly after the publication of Steele's book A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America.