Who is Middle-Class Blacks from The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America and what is their importance? The_Content_of_Our_Character:_A_New_Vision_of_Race_in_America English & Literature Middle-Class Blacks | The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

As a middle-class black man, Steele experienced significant discrimination from his own community for "acting white" and following bourgeois values. Steele thinks that middle-class status threatens many low-class blacks who receive much more social attention and so the black power movement has been used to facilitate the imposition of collectivist norms that discourage blacks from seeking middle class status.