Harper Perennial
The Content of Our Character : A New Vision of Race In America
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The Content of Our Character
Author(s): Shelby Steele
Review(s):
“Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.”
“One of the best books on race in America to appear in the past twenty-five years . . . No one who reads it honestly and with an open mind will ever think about race in quite the same way again.”
“Steele writes with a rare elegance and honesty . . . This is one of those rare books that force reexamination of basic assumptions.”
“Brutally honest, remarkably brave, and timely . . . We cannot afford to ignore his conclusions.”
“A brilliant book. Shelby Steele’s brave, penetrating intelligence goes to the heart of the dilemma of race in America.”
“Steele combines the literary sensibility of novelist Ralph Ellison with the analytic acuteness of American’s most profound black man, Frederick Douglass . . . Steele’s writings will last, to be read by generations as distant in time from him as he is from Douglass, whose worthy successor Steele is.”
“Elegant, personal pieces. Brilliant.”
“Well-written . . . Moving and persuasive.”
National Book Critics Circle Award
ISBN: 9780060974152
Author(s): Shelby Steele
Review(s):
“Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.”
“One of the best books on race in America to appear in the past twenty-five years . . . No one who reads it honestly and with an open mind will ever think about race in quite the same way again.”
“Steele writes with a rare elegance and honesty . . . This is one of those rare books that force reexamination of basic assumptions.”
“Brutally honest, remarkably brave, and timely . . . We cannot afford to ignore his conclusions.”
“A brilliant book. Shelby Steele’s brave, penetrating intelligence goes to the heart of the dilemma of race in America.”
“Steele combines the literary sensibility of novelist Ralph Ellison with the analytic acuteness of American’s most profound black man, Frederick Douglass . . . Steele’s writings will last, to be read by generations as distant in time from him as he is from Douglass, whose worthy successor Steele is.”
“Elegant, personal pieces. Brilliant.”
“Well-written . . . Moving and persuasive.”
National Book Critics Circle Award
ISBN: 9780060974152