Description: Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment is a compelling introduction to the ideas of black social critics who oppose the most prominent voices of black America's leadership. In their analysis, Conti and Stetson focus on four men: Thomas Sowell, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character; Robert Woodson, founder of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise; and Glenn Loury, a conservative political economist at Boston University. In speeches, in their writings, and in interviews with Conti and Stetson, these thinkers discuss how the construction of public policy has devolved into a kind of "ethnic cheerleading" that exalts race and ethnicity above personal character and behaviors in determinations of what is fair.

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