The content of our character : a new vision of race in America / Shelby Steele

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Contents: I'm Black you're White, who's innocent? Race and power in an era of blame -- Race-holding -- Being Black and feeling blue: Black hesitation on the brink -- The recomposed self: more on vulnerability -- White guilt -- On being Black and middle class -- Affirmative action: the price of preference -- The recoloring of campus life: student racism, academic pluralism and the end of a dream -- The memory of enemies. rc
Summary: An examination of race in America--the causes of the increasing friction between black and white Americans, and the possibiliity of hope for a more harmonious future. The author looks closely at his own life in an integrated society, and, in challenging his own preconceptions about race, causes us to rethink our own.