The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America – Essays on Identity and Social Justice - Softcover

Steele, Shelby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006097415X ISBN 13: 9780060974152

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1991

Synopsis

In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between black and whites. With candor and persuasive argument, he shows us how both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial inequities have instead increased them. "The Content of Our Character" is neither "liberal" nor "conservative, " but an honest, courageous look at America's most enduring and wrenching social dilemma.

About this title

About the Author

Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, and is a contributing editor at Harper's magazine. His many prizes and honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, an Emmy Award, a Writers Guild Award, and the National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

Steele, seeking to improve strained race relations, demonstrates how social policies intensify rather than lessen racial differences, how blacks and whites tend to see color before character, and how blacks are often oppressed more by doubt in their abilities than by racism. This won a National Book Critics Circle award. (Sept.)no PW
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006097415X
• ISBN 13: 9780060974152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192