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White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

58 reviews
Shelby Steele

HarperCollins, 2006

Required Reading
Shelby Steele's "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era" is required reading for all adult Americans, and, indeed, anyone, worldwide, sucked into the failures of skewed approaches to diversity. Steele writes beautifully; the ride he provides is elegant and smooth. The truth is tough: race relations are infected by white guilt - primarily on ...

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

25 reviews
Shelby Steele

Harper Perennial, 1991

Great Psychological and Spiritual Insight
Shelby Steele's "The Content of Our Character" is not just a book for African-Americans. It's for anyone who wants to live a better life. When I read this book I felt like he was speaking to me, individually, as a man and not as a member of a racial category. Especially valuable are his insights on self-sabotage, and the true sources of self-esteem. All of us have our own demons to face and ...

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

19 reviews
Shelby Steele

Harper Perennial, 1999

Powerful and nuanced essays on an important subject
"Discussions about race" is almost an oxymoron. The positions most people hold are already fixed and there isn't much of the ability to hear the other side that is required to have a true discussion. Too often we simply look for writings and speeches that support our pre-existing notions, praise them as we find them, and think to ourselves, "If only the other side would just see as clearly as I ...

White Guilt
Shelby Steele

Harpercollins, 2007

A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win

42 reviews
Shelby Steele

Free Press, 2007

Anyone who Agrees with this Book will ask: What can the Country Do for Me?
I read "A bound Man" in about two hours. Partly because it is a provocative, small, and well- paced book. It was my first experience reading a work by Professor Steele. I had heard about his highly acclaimed "The Content of our Character: A New Vision of Race in America", and his well-received "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Area." ...