- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In Chapter Six, Steele deals with a common rebuttal to his own argument. In response to the claim that minorities are impaired by their awareness of societal prejudice, some would argue that, in fact, awareness of societal prejudice can be a powerful motivator—it gives underprivileged people an extra reason to succeed and may, paradoxically, cause them to be more successful in the long run.
In response to this objection, however, Steele argues that it’s simply not supported by the facts. He draws readers’ attention to gifted black students. By and large, black students tend to study harder, and more independently…