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

by Shelby Steele

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Essays on race, identity, and the consequences of policy

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Essays on race, identity, and the consequences of policy

Shelby Steele gathers essays addressing racial conflict in the United States, with particular attention to anger, mistrust, violence, and the habit of judging people through race before individual character. The collection presents Steele’s argument that some social policies intended to reduce racial inequity have instead deepened it. Framed as an inquiry outside a simple liberal-versus-conservative divide, the book centers a contested diagnosis of race relations and the assumptions shaping public responses to them. Its essay format makes it a focused entry point into Steele’s perspective on a persistent American social and political debate.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking essay-based commentary on race relations in the United States
  • Those interested in debates over racial identity, social policy, and inequality
  • Readers exploring African American studies and contemporary political thought

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Race relationsIndividual character and identitySocial policyRacial inequalityAmerican political debate

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Book overview

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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