Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America - Hardcover

Steele, Shelby

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031205064X ISBN 13: 9780312050641

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Essays argue that Blacks are more oppressed by doubt than racism, look at the origins of racial conflict in America, and assess the failures of social policies designed to lessen racial differences

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Review:

"One of the best books on race in America to appear in the past twenty-five years.""-- Wall Street Journal""If you read no other book...make it Shelby Steele's "The Content of Our Character.""-- George Will, "Newsweek""The perfect voice of reason in a sea of hate."-- "Los Angeles Times""Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation's circumscribed public discourse on race."-- "New York Times""Steele's skill compares with that of James Baldwin, Richard Wright, or Frederick Douglass."-- "Chicago Tribune""Elegant, personal pieces. Brilliant."-- "New York" magazine

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 031205064X
• ISBN 13: 9780312050641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175