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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America Paperback - 1998

by Shelby Steele

In this controversial collection of essays, award-winning writer Shelby Steele tackles the tough question "Why, after 25 years of legal change and ebbing prejudice, are blacks worse off today?" A critically acclaimed national bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.


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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.

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  • Title The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
  • Author Shelby Steele
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-09-23
  • ISBN 9780060974152 / 006097415X
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004276034
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896

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  • Publishers Weekly, 08/23/1991, Page 0
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