Who is The Black American Community 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 The Black American Community | The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

The Content of Our Character is a work of social philosophy and has no true "main characters." While it has a number of important individuals, none are more important than many of the groups and communities that come in for analysis in the book. The Content of Our Character is not only written to the black American community, but is written about them. Steele believes that blacks have been conditioned by the experience of slavery and subsequent discrimination to be afraid that they cannot take care of themselves and to doubt their abilities. He also argues that blacks have not really figured out how to live freely without help from whites because they have not had much experience with it.