The Content of Our Character

Why, after twenty-five years of legal change and ebbing prejudice, are blacks worse off today?In this controversial collection of essays, award-winning writer Shelby Steele claims that blacks are more oppressed by doubt than by racism, and that a generation after the Watts riots and passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it's time for blacks to look beyond their victimization and rely on their efforts to gain access to the American mainstream.